All Black Swans commandos are required to shun alcohol and cursing, though many of the men, whose average age is about 20 and who hail from all over the country, pepper their language with profanity when out of the range of officers.
"That little country pepper takes you right back to Jamaica," said Ronald Patterson, a customer at Buff Patty in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, using a Jamaican term for the Scotch bonnet chili pepper, which has a fruity, almost floral taste that balances its considerable heat.
Lee's attitude and his unique approach to defense of the American way won him admirers all across the southern tier of Utah, a stretch of country peppered with survivalists, militiamen and amateur experts of the Constitution and the Second Amendment.
They were very different songs – the former a semi-cautionary tale about a record executive who retires to the country, peppered with references to Balzac, Prozac and Animal Farm and carried on a jovial gait, the latter a more lyrically opaque account of lost feelings and lingering ambition drawled over sludging guitars.
Turkey is a vast country peppered with impressive natural wonders, ancient cities and gorgeous coastline.
The logistics of getting Nasrallah over to Damascus undetected, across a highway which bisects a country peppered with Israeli agents, are mindboggling.
Or if they go to India, sure they still want to see the Taj Mahal but they also might want to go up into the hill country to see where the Dalai Lama lives and explore the hill country peppered with vestiges of the British colonial rule.
In many countries, pepper spray is highly regulated; the United Kingdom, for instance, classifies it as a prohibited weapon, along with explosive bullets and rocket launchers.
But what is used frequently in New York City, and by departments around the country, is pepper spray, a chemical compound derived from hot peppers but delivered in high doses.
Appetizers include warm leeks in a black truffle vinaigrette, soft boiled country egg, pepper, salt and gold leaf; sea scallops, slightly warmed, served with Iranian gold Osetra caviar; and truffled duck foie gras ravioli.
In newspaper interviews, John Hayes said the country was "peppered" with onshore windfarms and that "enough is enough".
