Talk:Salt and pepper shakers
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[edit] Salt single hole, pepper multiple? Or the other way round?
The page lacks one important detail. I'd like to hear clarifications from experts on the matter of whether the nature of the contents, i.e. salt or pepper, may be deduced from the hole arrangement on each shaker. In an argument with a Polish colleague I contended that, at least in Western Europe and the North America, the salt would typically come from the single holed shaker, and pepper from the multiple holed container (notwithstanding such novelties as patterns of holes in the shape of 'S' and 'P'). At the time we were having breakfast at a hotel in Poland, where on all tables the hole arrangements were reversed from my previous experience while travelling. Since my companion declared he'd never known any other arrangement, I wondered whether in Slavic lands, or perhaps in the former Eastern Bloc, there was an reversed tradition in shaker holes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.30.154.84 (talk) 07:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Update: I've now discovered that Germans also believe the single hole to imply pepper, and multiple to imply salt, just like my Polish colleague.
