You know what I'm talking about. You order a pizza or something and when it arrives you get powdered parmesan cheese and then some crushed peppers in a small shaker? Just what are those peppers? De Arbols?
Even so, most of us are familiar with the terms "crushed red pepper" or "red pepper flakes." It's not so much a chile as a style. A jar filled with red flakes intermingling with yellow seeds is front and center in most spice cabinets. No particular chile pepper is used, rather just a combination of C. annuum and C. frutenscens varieties, often ancho chiles,