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Dear Sirs/Madams,
in Italian, "pasta all'arrabbiata" means pasta in the angry fashion - with reference to the generous use of chilli in the sauce. The so-called arrabbiata sauce I bought from you did not even frown convincingly.

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Re: Cool! Or rather, hot.

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Those flakes are made of dried peperoncino, a variant of capsicum grown in Italy. Arrabbiata, however, is made with fresh peperoncino. I have seen other variants of capsicum - Italian peperoncino is longish and red, whereas the Caribbean capsicum I bought in Brixton, London, is green and the shape of a tiny peperoni - but I think an Italian would call any of these "peperoncino". I am not an expert, however.