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What is the red thing in the green olive? Is it a pimento or is it a pickled red pepper?

2007-12-18 08:16:35 · 13 answers · asked by ☆Erin☆ 4 in Entertainment & Music Polls & Surveys

I still got left behind - No you are thinking of a Palimino

2007-12-18 08:20:05 · update #1

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The Pimento, Pimiento, or Cherry Pepper is a variety of large, red, heart-shaped chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) that measures 3 to 4 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide (medium, elongate). The flesh of the sweet pimento is sweet, succulent and more aromatic than that of the red bell pepper. Some varieties of the pimento type are hot including the Floral Gem and Santa Fe Grande varieties. Pimento or pimentão are Portuguese words for "bell pepper", while pimenta refers both to chili peppers and to black pepper.

These sweet pimento peppers are the familiar red stuffing found in Spanish green olives. The pimento was originally cut into small pieces and hand stuffed into fresh green olives to balance the bitter taste of the olive, although the bitter taste of the olive is originally compensated for by pickling them. For ease of stuffing the pimento is often pureed and formed with the help of a natural seaweed gum (sodium alginate) into strips. This allows the olives to be stuffed by a machine and increases the availability of the stuffed olives, by lowering their cost of production.

2007-12-18 08:20:42 · answer #1 · answered by what??? 2 · 1 0

it's the red pepper. the pimento is the whole thing

2007-12-18 08:19:24 · answer #2 · answered by ppw1024 4 · 0 0

A pimento...it's a sweetened red pepper..

2007-12-18 08:19:43 · answer #3 · answered by madsmaha1 7 · 0 0

a pimento is red pepper

2007-12-18 08:19:07 · answer #4 · answered by dpunk00 3 · 0 0

They're a kind of red pepper that usually goes with olives

2007-12-18 08:19:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

it is a form of red pepper

2007-12-18 08:18:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

it is a pimento

2007-12-18 08:22:13 · answer #7 · answered by Leslie C 2 · 0 0

Paprika
or sweet chili pepper
the big chilies that are sweet not hot

2007-12-18 08:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the are citizens of th pimos republic of freedonia.

2007-12-18 08:19:51 · answer #9 · answered by Francis Hannaway 3 · 0 0

Here is a complete answer.

2007-12-18 08:19:16 · answer #10 · answered by 'Old & Cudley' 7 · 0 0

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