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Why Are Pepper Grinders A Thing In Restaurants? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee to c/food@beehaw.org
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Let's say I decide to go to a nice restaurant for a meal. The dish comes out, and I ask for a salt shaker before I even taste it (I never have, btw). That is normally considered an insult to the chef or you are pegged as a neanderthal diner.

Why, then, is it normal for a waiter to offer you grinds of pepper all over your plate before you have even had your first bite?

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[–] liv@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this must be a language barrier thing because cafes serve a lot more than that here.

A picture's worth a thousand words, so here is a random article with pictures of some cafes,

and here is an article with pictures of restaurants in the same town.

Obviously there's a bit of crossover.