Paprika

Known for being spicy,

famous for being reddish.

Nobody thinks much about it,

so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why paprika is

secretly incredibly fascinating.

Thank you. Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt. I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host, Katie Golden, Katie. Yeah. What is your relationship to or opinion of paprika?

Paprika. It's good.

You know, I feel like it is the red powder that makes things taste just a little better.

You know, not way better, but, you know, a little bit better.

It is one of the five spices.

I'm joking.

There's more spices than that.

It's very beef and dairy network. There's four meats and there's only four meats. Yeah. Yeah. There's five spices,

paprika, salt, pepper, onion, and other. Red onion. Yeah. Yeah. Um about you, Alex? How you feel about paprika?

This was very revelatory to research because I mainly thought of it as a red spice that I think adds some heat maybe. But in my experience, I haven't really, like, tasted that.

Right.

And after researching it, I think I pretty much know why.

And it's mainly because I don't live in or near a few places in Europe that have a different

experience of it.

I have had different types of paprika here in northern Italy.

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