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As the heading says - Know your Capsicum before buying pepper plants in Dubai. I was out in Satwa and came across a plant shop with some pepper plants that already had flowers on them. I asked the shopkeeper what the plants were (I knew they were pepper plants but not what kind) and he said "Chili". I said I did not want chili peppers (being from the West we are not as big a chili pepper eaters as our friends from the subcontinent - that said Peppers orginated in South America I believe). I must have had "I'm a big dumb Sucker" written on my forehead in his language. He then said "Oh sir, these are Capsicum - the big ones" making a gesture of a large fruit simliar in shape and size of a bell pepper.
