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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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InvisibleOneMoreRobot3021
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Pepper Grinding
    #5441121 - 03/25/06 01:47 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I?m wondering what?s with the pepper grinding ritual that invaded U.S. restaurants a decade or 2 ago? I agree that freshly-ground pepper is a nice addition to many foods ? like salt, it seems to bring out the flavor, to stimulate the palate. But that?s obviously not the point of this ritual ? the point is social, economic, and psychological. How and why did it become a little ritual to have the food arrive and then be quickly followed by a man (usually a man) who asks, ?Do you want some pepper ground over that?? He wafts the phallic object over your food like a wand and waits for you, the master, to tell him ?when?. Then he is gone and may never return.

Wouldn?t it be easier to have a little pepper grinder on every table? It wouldn?t be harder than keeping all those refilled saltshakers out there, would it?

But that?s not the point, I suspect. What?s important is the ritual and the relationship. The servant and the implication of service? the feeling of being pandered to and pampered in a customized manner. One hopes that this little ritual assuages any impulses by the client to imperiously order the staff around, and sometimes it does seem to absorb these impulses, though not always.

-lifted from David Byrne's Journal


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5441131 - 03/25/06 01:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

True. Never really thought about it but its true. Although this David Byrne seems to have too much free time to be thinking of such things


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: Yarry]
    #5441136 - 03/25/06 01:52 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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Yarry said:
Although this David Byrne seems to have too much free time to be thinking of such things




:rofl:

i much prefer the woman with the mozerella cheese grater than the pepper-man.


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: Krishna]
    #5441146 - 03/25/06 01:54 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Is it because you prefer women, or mozzerella?


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5441159 - 03/25/06 01:58 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Restaurants don't leave them on the table, because cheap fucking losers steal them, if they are left unattended. I love ground pepper! And Mozzerella!!


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: blissedout]
    #5441160 - 03/25/06 01:59 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I've never seen a mozzerella grinder. 

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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: Yarry]
    #5441166 - 03/25/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

David Byrne is allowed to spend his time thinking about whatever he damn well pleases. :mad:


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5441168 - 03/25/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

Wouldn?t it be easier to have a little pepper grinder on every table?


... Too easy to steal. We've actually brought our own pepper grinder to restaurants that don't have them.For years I've done this ...


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #5441169 - 03/25/06 02:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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PLUR, LOL said:
I've never seen a mozzerella grinder. 

:rimshot:




i dont get it?


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5441237 - 03/25/06 02:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

At the italian place i used to work at we had to go to the tables with a grinder.

Eventually they got the small refillable grinders on every table.


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Re: Pepper Grinding [Re: Yarry]
    #5441265 - 03/25/06 02:42 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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Krishna said:

i much prefer the woman with the mozerella cheese grater than the pepper-man.




Quote:

Yarry said:
Quote:

PLUR, LOL said:
I've never seen a mozzerella grinder. 

:rimshot:




i dont get it?




There is no "Mozzarella grinder". That cheese is so soft it's difficult to grate if not very cold.

Krishna was referring to the Parmesan cheese grinding lady and miss-spoke.


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