My tea tastes weird

I think it's obvious they don't have bowls or glasses either.

Seems like it would take longer to core and clean a pepper to drink out of than clean a cup.

Depends on how dirty it is. If you let sit milk, coffee, hot cocoa in a cup it can become pretty disgusting and even moldy and you don't wanna touch that. Even worse if you used them to cook a mugcake for instance, or had food in your bowl in the fridge and used a cup to mix flour and water and now it's just there on the floor judging you.
Fuck I need to do my dishes, I don't even have a pepper.

Flashbacks to my middle school days of moldy hot chocolate cups... *shudders*

Isn't your red pepper gonna taste like tea?

Touché