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Default Ground pepper vs. peppercorns?

On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 4:59:09 PM UTC-6, 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


Generally the pepper grinders the restaurants have are much bigger than would comfortably fit on the table anyway.

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