Okay, so—paprika. You know, that red powder you toss on top of deviled eggs so they look less sad? Turns out, a bunch of people on the internet just found out what it’s actually made from and, for some reason, completely lost their minds. Like, full-on “wait, what?!” level shock. I’m not judging. Okay, maybe a little.
I saw this one post—some influencer from Australia, Nutra Organic or whatever, had stumbled into the rabbit hole and basically said what a lot of us were apparently thinking: “Learning that paprika is just dried and crushed red capsicum was really shocking. I don’t know why I thought there was a paprika tree somewhere.” Which—yeah. Same. I never really thought about it, but if you’d asked me five years ago, I probably would’ve guessed “paprika” came from, like… its own special paprika pod or something? Some kind of spice bush? I don’t know.
