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Ok, I can understand someone who's not a good speller and not familiar with Italian or Spanish not knowing how to spell zucchini and jalapeno. And "tater" is a pretty accepted nickname for potatoes, and "mater" just fits with that pretty nicely.
But how the fuck do you misspell "bell pepper"? Coulda been funny if it did a porky-pig style thing where it tries to write capsicum a few times, crosses those out, and then just writes "bell pepper".
It's phonetic with a strong accent. Likely they've never seen it written down or heard it without the accent
I've gone looking and unfortunately can't find a proper name for it (like with the "cot/caught" merger or the "pin/pen" merger), but there does indeed seem to be attestations of a sort of "bail/bell merger" in parts of America, including Texas. Neat!