sport pepper

English

Etymology

sport (“unusual variety”) +‎ pepper.[1]

Noun

sport pepper (plural sport peppers)

  1. A mild chili pepper, commonly pickled and used in Southern US cooking and on Chicago-style hot dogs.

References

  1. ^ “Pepper Plants”, in Thirty-Second Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station and the Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station for the Year Ending October 31st, 1911‎[1], 1912, page 340: “This came as a sport (mutant?) in a block of a cross of the “Sweet Spanish” upon the “Red Cluster, and is far adrift from either parent.”
    Added note: “Sweet Spanish” is a variety of the cultivar Capsicum annuum grossum (bell pepper), while “Red Cluster” is the cultivar Capsicum annuum fasciculatum, also known as bird's eye chili.
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