# Screw you, McCormick sea salt grinder marketers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 22, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360 "2011-06-22T00:42:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/1 "2011-06-22T00:42:34Z")
Yah, I love your product.
Sea salt ground freshly ground onto my food, the finer bits dissolving, the larger chucks hanging around to give up their salty goodness over time.
It wasn’t good enough for you to make a nice grinder though, was it. You had to design it so we would have to throw it away and buy another one when the sea salt was used up. "Disposable, do not refill’ you so helpfully print on the label. Stupid consumers will follow your instructions, right?
Well screw you and your built in waste. I took 4 small screwdrivers and forced the tips under the lip of the grinder cap, one right next to the other. Sure there was some white stress marks on the plastic but it snapped off of the “one time use” locking lip.
Ha, watch me refill your grinder with bulk bought Himalayan pink and keep another throw away product out of the landfill.
Bitch.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/2 "2011-06-22T00:59:52Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#):
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> Ha, watch me refill your grinder with bulk bought Himalayan pink and keep another throw away product out of the landfill.
It’s a glass container. You could just recycle it.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/3 "2011-06-22T01:02:30Z")
Or you could, you know, get a proper dispenser instead of a disposable POS that will just break after two or three refillings anyway.
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/4 "2011-06-22T01:14:40Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> It’s a glass container. You could just recycle it.
And the plastic bits?
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/5 "2011-06-22T01:15:40Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> Or you could, you know, get a proper dispenser instead of a disposable POS that will just break after two or three refillings anyway.
Could you recommend some product?
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/6 "2011-06-22T01:23:10Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#):
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> And the plastic bits?
call it “carbon sequestration.”
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/7 "2011-06-22T01:23:42Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> It’s a glass container. You could just recycle it.
The “recycle” symbol is represents three choices - in order of goodness:
1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
So OP has successfully done 1 and 2 (which are kind of hand-in-glove anyway), and the presumably will recycle when reuse is no longer possible.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/8 "2011-06-22T01:32:59Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#):
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> Could you recommend some product?
Lots of [salt grinders](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dgarden&field-keywords=salt+grinder&x=0&y=0) at Amazon. I don’t have a recommendation, though.
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### Author:  [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/9 "2011-06-22T01:38:56Z")
Buy “Spice Islands” Brand, with the brown top. It just unscrews so you can refill it. I’m holding a Chipoltle Chile bottle that has spent the last few years grinding red pepper flakes perfectly.
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/10 "2011-06-22T01:41:32Z")
I thought that this pitting would result in:
A poster telling me what an elitist snob I am for using sea salt.
Someone telling me how this thread is lamer than a pony with hoof rot.
What a wussy I am for not swearing more in a pitting.
Do I not understand the Dope?
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### Author:  [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/11 "2011-06-22T01:53:32Z")
I came here from new posts you stupid twit. How about you fucking open your eyes and grow a pair and buy the “Spice Islands” brand so you don’t keep bothering us with you inane shit.
Better?
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/12 "2011-06-22T01:55:40Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#):
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> I thought that this pitting would result in . . . Someone telling me how this thread is lamer than a pony with hoof rot.
I thought about saying this, but I felt it would be rubbing salt in your wounds.
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/13 "2011-06-22T02:00:41Z")
> [@sitchensis](#):
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> I came here from new posts you stupid twit. How about you fucking open your eyes and grow a pair and buy the “Spice Islands” brand so you don’t keep bothering us with you inane shit.
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> Better?
Yes, who said you shouldn’t kick a man when he’s down, hell, that’s when he is closer to your foot.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/14 "2011-06-22T02:01:48Z")
Oooooooh, look at me and my pansy ass pink salt. Waaah waaah, I want to save the planet one salt shaker at a time. STFU and grow a pair - get salt like a real man and evaporate it from deer blood. You can’t figure out how to find a fucking salt shaker on the internet? How about you start by typing “salt shaker.” Jesus fucking christ, worst pitting evar.
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/15 "2011-06-22T02:02:43Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> I thought about saying this, but I felt it would be rubbing salt in your wounds.
Thanks, I was hopeing someone would spice this up.
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### Author:  [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/16 "2011-06-22T02:04:29Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> Oooooooh, look at me and my pansy ass pink salt. Waaah waaah, I want to save the planet one salt shaker at a time. STFU and grow a pair - get salt like a real man and evaporate it from deer blood. You can’t figure out how to find a fucking salt shaker on the internet? How about you start by typing “salt shaker.” Jesus fucking christ, worst pitting evar.
Oh, yeah, well you, you kin, umm ,ah
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/17 "2011-06-22T02:06:22Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#):
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> I thought that this pitting would result in:
> A poster telling me what an elitist snob I am for using sea salt.
> Someone telling me how this thread is lamer than a pony with hoof rot.
> What a wussy I am for not swearing more in a pitting.
>
> Do I not understand the Dope?
Well, sea salt is great as a finishing salt. But whenever I see some TV chef use it to season pasta water (not often, thankfully), I wonder if he is selling his own line. My wife doesn’t understand why I need 3 types of salt in the house, and why it matters when I use each one.
That said, I do have a salt grinder, but it’s a PITA to refill. Poor design. It was a gift…one day I’ll stop being so damn cheap and buy a better one (but I’d rather spend the money on the sea salt).
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/18 "2011-06-22T02:08:41Z")
I say let’s drink to the salt of the earth.
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### Author:  [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/19 "2011-06-22T02:30:44Z")
Salt shaker? What the fuck? Nuh uh. This is a fucking salt grinder thread. Fuck you!
Also, just buy the fucking salt in pourable crystals or tossable flakes. Again . . . WTF?
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-mccormick-sea-salt-grinder-marketers/586360/20 "2011-06-22T03:48:38Z")
Salt is an inert mineral. It makes no difference whether it’s “freshly ground” or ground 10 years ago. Ditch the grinder and get a salt pig.
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