Salt n pepper

[paulhopps22]

why do salt pots have ONE hole and pepper pots have more than one hole . Who decided that salt was only worthy of one hole ? Why is pepper more deserving of many holes ??

[andy hughes]

Because salt is carse-grained, and is often poured into a small pile at the side of the plate, or scattered over the meal. Pepper is fine grained and usually eaten in smaller quantities, and requires more directional control when being sprinkled over food

[tartanwiz]

Besides, if both pots had the same amount of holes, how could you tell which was which ? They would have to be labelled.

[smudge]

Very wise tartanwiz!

[sddsddean]

But in Germany, they are the other way round. Very confusing if you want a bit of salt on you boiled egg and pepper comes out instead!

[smudge]

Ah, but that's why we won the war, da da!

[bernardo]

smudge - tartanwiz's answer about telling the difference is not "wise"; it's "bl--ding obvious".

[smudge]

We all know that bernardo, it was written tongue in cheek!

[IndieSinger]

sddsddean - how are they the other way 'round in Germany? In German, "Salt" is Saltz and "Pepper" is Pfeffer. Having the letters on the shakers isn't common over there, but where they exist, there is definitely salt in the S-shaker and pepper in the P-shaker.

[bernardo]

Oh! Someone must have tucked some blanks into my tongue-in-cheek detector!

[bernardo]

Nein Herr Singer! Das deutsche Wort für "salt" ist "Salz", nicht "Saltz". Du sollst vielleicht deiner Lücken einstecken, statt falsch buchstabieren.

[bernardo]

I presume that sddsddean means that the Salz has billions of holes in, and the Pfeffer has only one.

[IndieSinger]

bernardo - du hast, wie (fast) immer, Recht! Und ich habe meine L�cken irgendwo gesteckt und werde jetzt �3.000 gewinnen!

I get what sddsddean meant now and it all makes much more sense!

[bernardo]

When we made salt and pepperpots in woodwork at school, my brother accidentally drilled the holes into the pepper with the large salt-hole-drill-bit, and the hole into the salt with the small-hole-drill-bit.

When I did it the next year, I made them perfectly, with proper holes, smoothly varnished, and then lost them as soon as they were finished. Both events happened before IndieSinger ever did anything.

[IndieSinger]

bernado - your brother sounds as clumsy as me - I wrote a letter on Microsoft Word earlier and, would you believe, I printed it upside-down.

Conversely, this happened after bernardo did something.

[georgit79]

How have there been so many answers to this question? The first answer was quite adequate! Just don't use salt and pepper, it's much easier (and better for you).

[Canib]

Actually, you can distinguish salt and pepper shakers by different markings or shapes. Salt pours faster than pepper (depending on the grind) so the difference in the number of holes is to moderate the amount that comes out preventing catastrophic over pouring.