black and white..there is a difference..............

I bought some white pepper for a dill chicken recipe a few months ago. I thought it probably tastes about the same as black pepper..... Never really tasted it by itself. Then, the other day I ran out of black pepper in our table pepper shaker. So I loaded up the pepper shaker with white pepper. There is a HELL of a difference in the taste of black and white pepper! and the brand I bought is ground very very fine. So when I shook a few shakes of the shaker, I got a ton of pepper. It tasted kinda musky or gamy. Very different.