* Although chilies meet the grocery store definition of a spice or vegetable (both culinary terms), botanically they’re fruits—berries, to be specific—named after the Sanskrit pippali (“berry”), which, confusingly, is also the origin of the names of the spices long pepper and black pepper, both of which are of no relation to the chili pepper, which, also confusingly, is interchangeably written as “chilli” or “chile” pepper.