# Salt and Pepper Shakers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519 "2000-12-07T18:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/21 "2000-12-08T14:13:31Z")
[Eve gathers her emeralds warmly about her and glares through her lorgnette] “Shakers?” Aren’t they that religious cult in New England? Salt and pepper should always be served in tiny bowls, lined in blue glass and accompanied by itty-bitty spoons (if the 1980s left any of the itty-bitty spoons unstolen by your friends, IF you know what I mean . . . ). ---
**Author:** ![muffinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@muffinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muffinman)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/22 "2000-12-08T17:13:08Z")
Sorry Eve, you’re thinking of QUAKERS! And for you Publix shoppers out there, does the salt go in the pilgrim or the pilgrim’s wife? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/23 "2000-12-08T17:20:06Z")
Muffin— > **[Home](https://hancockshakervillage.org/)** > > Defining Expertise: The Design of 19th-century Shaker Communities > > “Defining Expertise: The Design of 19th-century Shaker Communities,” produced by Design Miami/ in collaboration with Hancock Shaker Village and John Keith Russell Antiques, ex “Don’t question me, young man!” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/24 "2000-12-08T17:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > **Actually, black pepper was once literally worth its weight in gold. Salt, while it used to be expensive, was never THAT dear.** Ah, but which was so important that it originated the term “salary”? ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/25 "2000-12-09T00:44:16Z")
\<\\> **AWB** said: > [@](#): > > I remember my mom’s sets of shakers. Sorry, but this sentence just sounds so delightfully perverted, I couldn’t let it pass without comment. \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/26 "2000-12-09T01:23:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > > **Actually, black pepper was once literally worth its weight in gold. Salt, while it used to be expensive, was never THAT dear.** > > Ah, but which was so important that it originated the term “salary”? \*\* Oh, sure, the Romans (IIRC) were paid in salt bricks. But pepper was even MORE expensive, and it wasn’t at all common. Sort of like I’ve got tumeric (sp?) in my spice cupboard, but not saffron. ---
**Author:** ![Thirsty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Thirsty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirsty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/27 "2001-01-12T18:44:07Z")
Sorry for the long delay in checking up on this topic. I have salt goes in the shaker with few holes 5 to more hole 3. I have searched the web endlessly for an answer. Their must be an answer out there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519/28 "2001-01-12T20:21:02Z")
Hey **Ike** , don’t you ever get a nose bleed from taking the high road all the time? 😉 However in this case I tend to agree. I have a big ole’ pepper mill with a crank on top for pepper, and a regular ole’ salt shaker with 8 or 10 little holes in it. Oh, and **AWB** : > [@](#): > > Now, I remember my mom’s sets of shakers. Thank you for bringing images of you mom’s “set of shakers” into our heads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-and-pepper-shakers/44519.md?page=1)