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Look at the ingredients of those and you will find plenty of spices.
Black pepper does not grow in north-western Europe, you know - the fact that you forgot it's a spice is testament to how well the spice trade worked.
The real tragedy of black pepper is that no one eats it as fresh berries. I was in a hot area suitable for growing it and had the berries before they get dried into pepper corns and they were amazing! Spicy and a bit sweet and nothing like the dried version.
If only they weren't so hard to grow outside certain zones
Interesting!
Due to the influence of Tasting History (Max Miller), this year I bought long pepper for use in a few recipes (currently marinating some shawarma) - that's an interesting flavour, also a bit sweeter (dried) than (dried) round pepper.
Wait until this poor sod discovers Irish food....