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Why Are Pepper Grinders A Thing In Restaurants? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

In the USA I've never been to a restaurant that didn't have salt on the table. Do you mind if I ask where you live?

I wonder what aspect of cultural differences are responsible with that, thats genuinely super interesting to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

New Zealand. Another cultural difference I know about is we also don't really have filter coffee, except in really old-fashioned working class cafeterias.

The espresso culture in this part of the world is so well established that Starbucks struggled when it expanded into Australia and New Zealand and instead of proliferating, shrank to just a few stores that cater to overseas tourists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do cafes there serve more than coffee and pastries? I'm just curious why they would have salt on the table, but not a restaurant and I'm flooded with ideas that are probably really dumb lol

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