On 2/23/2016 6:37 PM, Roy wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 3:59:09 PM UTC-7, Jill McQuown wrote:
>> On 2/23/2016 1:57 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found a couple of cheap bottles of pepper at the supermarket and bought those suckers up.
>>>> I like that better than the grinder because when I'm cooking, I don't have time to break rhythm
>>>> and start grinding away endlessly. I hate using a grinder! It's a real drag.
>>>
>>> Then for you cooking is an even bigger PIA
>>>
>>>> I wish they'd put grinders on tables at restaurants instead of shakers.
>>>
>>> How long do you think they'd last before being stolen by lazy *******s
>> (snippage)
>>
>> I actually agree with you on this one, Sheldon. There's a reason the
>> servers at *finer* (note the word finer) restaurants offer to grind
>> pepper over your food at the table rather than just leave a grinder on
>> the table. Too many of those fine, upstanding citizens have stolen them.
>>
>> Jill
>
> I for one do not like servers to grind pepper onto MY food. They certainly don't know how much to grind or get it distributed properly.
> Also they often have the attitude that they are doing you a favor by even being there.
> Nothing I hate worse than some lackey fawning at my elbow and no doubt wondering as to how much of a tip I'm going to leave (or not leave).

I agree with that, too. I merely said I've noted some places have the
servers who grind pepper *for* you because they are afraid someone will
steal the peppermils. They are not the sort of places where I eat.

I don't enjoy eating out. I do own a pepper grinder and I didn't steal it.
>
> By the way...salt, pepper and sugar dispensers are usually great germ carriers...always use a disposable napkin to handle them, lest you end up with the same disease(s) as the last person(s) who touched them.
> =====
>
Sugar dispensers? Sorry, I don't have one of those.

Jill