We grew the plant by accident, and while the usual harvest is just a handful at a time, they taste really fresh and great.

Edit: Thanks for the attention to this post. There’s a lot of insistence that these are jalapenos and not bell peppers. They are in fact bell peppers, for the following reasons:

  1. They’re sweet and not spicy.
  2. Jalapenos tend to have a more elongated shape.
  3. Green jalapenos tend to have a much brighter color.

I’m also in Southeast Asia so our pepper varieties are different.

Hope this helps!

  • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    16 hours ago

    I’ve grown many a bell pepper, never have I had one that looked like a jalapeño. I think you are mistaken.

        • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
          2·
          13 hours ago

          That must be a language thing, cause I would call any pepper that’s not spicy a bell pepper. Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article on bell peppers said

          bell pepper is the only member of the genus Capsicum, that does not produce capsaicin

          So if it’s not spicy, it’s a bell pepper (at least where I live), but they can be in different forms. Not that any of that matters.

          • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            Ha I was about to post a similar thing - there are colloquial differences for sure. I’ve heard bell peppers called sweet bell peppers in the Deep South. And in op’s defense, some people say bell peppers are spicy in their opinion. AND there are varieties of jalapeño that can have little to no heat in flavor so, that may not be a measure to go by. But a jalapeño does have a different flavor from a bell pepper, heat notwithstanding.

            But like you said, it doesn’t matter. Just eat them because they taste good!