On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 11:59:37 -0700, 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.

But many of these people, other than Cindy and a few, are probably
talking about all kinds of fast food joints and chains. You can do
anything there, I assume.