it's really weird to think that before european contact with the americas, the hottest spice europe, asia, and africa had access to was black pepper
@CoronaCoreanici and you can get pretty hot mustards too I guess
@Felthry Yeah I find that particularly striking when applied to indian and southeast asian food.
@Felthry isn't some types of mustard hotter?
actually I guess they probably did have wasabi, hmm