Mount St. Helens salt and pepper shakers
Mt. St. Helens salt and pepper shaker
This salt and pepper shaker set attempts to commemorate the natural disaster that was the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. It is made from actual volcanic ash from the event. When the little shaker is stacked on top of the other, it shows the volcano as it looked before it exploded. When it is taken off, the set shows what it looked like after it had spewed volcanic ash, steam, molten lava, and tons of boulders. The ash plume alone reached 80,000 feet in the air, and was deposited in a number of states. After the eruption was all over, 57 people were killed. The after effects to the environment and the economy were felt for years afterward. Somehow, a pair of salt and pepper shakers seems rather trivial for the enormity of the tragedy.
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Which is the salt and which is the pepper? I can’t think of any logical way of deciding.
Lyle
Lyle, beats me. One way of thinking of it is that people use more salt than pepper, so the bottom shaker would have the salt, because it’s bigger. But then you’d always have to move the upper one out of the way to use it. So, it would make better sense that the more frequently used one would be more accessible. It’s a conundrum, but it doesn’t matter. After all, it’s one of my Salt and Pepper Shakers I’ll Never Use.
Not being a salt & pepper shaker expert, but having had a parent who knew everything, one can determine which “should” be the pepper & which “should” be the salt by counting the number of holes in each shaker. The pepper shaker has fewer holes. In the event each shaker has the same number of holes, THEY ARE NOT REAL salt and pepper shakers-they are FAKES & should be returned to the vendor for a full refund IMMEDIATELY. Also the Better Business Bureau MUST be contacted. That being said, if you own any FAKE shakers you could put salt in both OR pepper in both. AND, it is always fun, as a host or hostess, to watch your guests try to figure out which is which AND end-user discretion is always acceptable. I am not a salt lover so IF I were to use salt and pepper shakers (which I would not), I would put pepper in both. Actually, I prefer to grind my pepper directly into/onto my food the way my parent who knew everything told me to. Do you want to talk pepper grinders now?
Thanks, Jean. Now I have to go through my entire collection and figure out which ones are real, and which are not. But since they are all Salt and Pepper Shakers I’ll Never Use, perhaps it doesn’t matter.