pepper in England hotels
 

The pepper in a regular shaker at the table at the two hotels near Heathrow where I ate was the spiciest and best pepper I have ever had. I've been trying to find pepper like that since I got back to the US but can't find it anywhere. It was white and the same coarseness as any regular table pepper here. I tried some white pepper from the store here and it was way too finely ground into a powder and it didn't have much flavor at all.

Also I had some cayenne or Thai looking skinny red peppers from a jar like a pickle jar, super hot, great on sandwiches, when I was in France. I can't find that either. (I'm talking about a different kind of pepper here.)

Any ideas where to get this stuff?

I have noticed that table pepper in Britain is always the same as what you describe: it looks whiter than the pepper we get here and is spicier, but it isn't white pepper. I always just assumed the Brits used a different cultivar, but a few minutes of Googling didn't yield any details.