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.
>
>John Kuthe...

They don't fit in pockets either, they're huge so the restaurant staff
can't easily steal them nor would they want to... those grotesque
hunks of wood employ lousy grinder mechanisms, and they have no
greater capacity than normal sized pepper mills.