My wife asked me why MINI chose the name of their creamy white to be called Pepper White. Being a guy I had to answer and made up a story that the Brits grow a special albino pepper used only in stews that isn't pure white but that creamy color of white and thats where the name came from.

Sounded good at the time but now I am wondering if anyone knows the logic behind the name.

 

There is acually white pepper that does kinda resemble that color.

 

>>My wife asked me why MINI chose the name of their creamy white to be called Pepper White. Being a guy I had to answer and made up a story that the Brits grow a special albino pepper used only in stews that isn't pure white but that creamy color of white and thats where the name came from.
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>>Sounded good at the time but now I am wondering if anyone knows the logic behind the name.


I like your answer......good job, stick with it.

R.E.

 

I don't know, but from experience I CAN tell you that Euro-spec and Mexican MINIs come in four trim levels, "Salt" "Pepper" "Chili" and "Hot Chili".
My first MINI was a "Hot Chili", i.e. a loaded MCS.

 

Why is it pepper white?
Because it matches chili red.

This week as we drove around spotting MINIs my family could not come up with the name of the white MINIs they saw until I told them. They were dumbfounded. We spotted four PW MC!!!! individually on the road.

 

Why is the sky blue?
Charles

 

>>Why is the sky blue?

That's easy! Because God is a Penn State fan.

 

Hmmmmmmm.........Thought God went to Navy!

 

>>Hmmmmmmm.........Thought God went to Navy!

Being a Submarine Veteran of the Navy I can attest that God did attend the academy. And each graduate since assumes themselves to be his son.

Regards to the Pepper White name It's because of all the 100 Percent Hot MINI Babes who drive them. Hot and fiery all of them.

 

>>>>Why is the sky blue?
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>>That's easy! Because God is a Penn State fan.

I like that one!

 

No, the REAL reason its called Pepper White is because that is how it was originally formulated. Take a gallon white paint...add three tablespoons of pepper...mix REAL well...... and viola!

 

This is the real answer.

:smile:

 

NOBODY would name an auto color "white" anymore.
So... the question is to either use a word that means
"white", or qualify the word "white".

So, having chosen to qualify the color name, marketers
will look to match the attitude to the product.

"Pepper White" does just that.

Can you think of another good choice? "Artic White"?
"Major White"? "Dirty White"? "Brash White"?


God speed.

 

MINI's pepper white (cream) has traditionally been called Old English White (OEW) by most other British manufacturers (BMC, British Leyland, MG Rover). Methinks the name change is to reflect more of a marketing shift (new MINI, new color) than anything to do with either spices or bovine glandualar secretions. Remember the Bard's words, "A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet."

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If you dig around on MINI2 you'll find the original names for all the colours.... A lot of them are pretty cool 70s musclecar colour type names.... Pepper White was supposed to be "Nougat"

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Cheese

 

I contacted BWMUSA

L

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Since red is named Chili red (as the Chili trimmed MINI in Europe and Mexico), they probably took pepper white (as is the Pepper trimmed MINI also). Now they are missing the "Salt" color. Should it be silver salt?

I´ve always considered it funny that they called a MINI trim "salt". In Mexico something that is "salted" is supposed to by of bad luck

 

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>>Can you think of another good choice? "Artic White"?
>>"Major White"? "Dirty White"? "Brash White"?
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LMAOLMAO @ "major" white... that was a giggle... ("Dude, that is MAJOR White!" ROFL).

Hope my DS/B MCS comes with a little "pepper on it",
Tatt

 

>>Regards to the Pepper White name It's because of all the 100 Percent Hot MINI Babes who drive them. Hot and fiery all of them.
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I will have to tell Marianne this one. Thanks

 

Would you really want your wife telling some guy that her car color was "creamy white"?

 

peppercorns are white too....they start of black, turn green, and then become white after a long period of time.

(or is it the other way around with the colors? I can't remember)

 

I assumed it was from white pepper.
It is an odd color that seems to change in different light. Sometimes it looks more creamy than others, especially if you have snow in the background. Someone once referred to it as vanilla cream. I love it with the red interior (as you can see in the sig pic). One of the MAs at my dealer kept calling it "The Jelly Doughnut".



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