salty dog

[topaz]

[Poll #1303350]

Why?

Comments

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Pepper, because you want greater amounts of pepper than salt.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Huh! Salt, because you want greater amounts of salt than pepper.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

What? But it's so much easier to add too much salt than too much pepper! (i.e., food with a little more salt than you wanted is more likely to be much less edible than food with a little too much pepper)

[dbang.livejournal.com]

Food with too much pepper is WAY less likely to be edible than food with too much salt.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

What is this "too much salt" of which you speak?

[d3l1r1um.livejournal.com]

What he said.

[blk]

Disagreed! Or rather, it's much easier for me to get food too salty than too peppery.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

What she said.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Salt, because you want greater amounts of salt than pepper.

That's basically where I am. Or, rather, most people use more salt than pepper on their food, so salt goes in the shaker with more holes.

I was compelled to poll the LJspace when I learned that there was not something like total universal agreement on this point.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I'm in sort of the inverse position to yours. We never went out to restaurants when I was a kid, and all we had was a pepper mill, so I really and truly am still a bit confused by pepper shakers. So, although it is actually quite true that I personally want more salt than pepper (and more than most other people), I always have to think of the rule that someone else taught me about number-of-holes. It almost always surprises me that there is, actually, fairly general agreement on this topic, at least in the restaurants I seem to, er, use salt at.