On Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:32:27 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 12:24:31 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> >> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:13:41 -0800, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> >>
> >>> The salt thread has started and continued to be nutso.
> >>>
> >>> Can we do the same with pepper?
> >> Interesting!
> >> Lately, I've been making pepper mills and it has occurred to me that their
> >> real place is in the kitchen, not on the formal dining table where their
> >> use would be an insult to the cook.
> >
> > Why are cooks so thin-skinned that they would mind someone adding
> > pepper (or salt, for that matter) to food? It's "season to taste", and
> > everyone's taste is different.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> I would have thought that it's bad manners to season a dish that one's host
> has prepared. After all, it's criticism of her/his cooking.

Not in my view. It means I like more salt or pepper than the host does.

When I cook for others, I cut back on the salt to "normal people levels".

Cindy Hamilton