On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:40:02 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2016-02-24 5:05 AM, sf wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Most places where I have had servers come around to offer freshly
> ground pepper the grinder has been huge, at least 5 times bigger than
> the largest one we have.
>
Never mind. We were cross talking. You were still talking about the
phallic symbol they bring to the table and I'd moved to what's
actually *on* the table because that's what "pepper grinders in
restaurants" means to me.

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sf