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Default Ground pepper vs. peppercorns?

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:59:04 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

> On 2/23/2016 1:57 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > dsi1 wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
>

I hate it when they come at me with that gigantic pepper grinder.
This isn't the 60s. Unless they are stuck in a time warp, everybody
has at least one pepper grinder now and nobody is impressed by that
huge thing. I'm actually embarrassed for the waiter who has to do it,
because it's so silly and pretentious.

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