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Default Ground pepper vs. peppercorns?

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:27:03 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> wrote:

> 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.
>


No they aren't. They're regular (small) table sized.

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