Grinding mondo peppercorns

wryly — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:15:13 -0800

I love Tellicherry pepper, but I need to find a pepper mill that can handle these extra-large peppercorns. Tellicherry pepper tastes great, but a lot of the peppercorns are too large for normal pepper-grinding mechanisms. Do you know of a peppermill that's up to the job -- a mill that's not battery-powered?

I do know about the (IMO) ugly Zassenhaus -- any others?

Do younger people pay with folding money only?

wryly — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:20:36 -0800

Have you noticed a link between a person's age and whether he/she pays for purchases with exact change? Recently, when paying for a purchase that totaled $15.10, I handed over a twenty-dollar bill and a dime. The proprietor, a friendly and pleasant guy, joked, "You're too young to be paying with exact change." This led to a discussion of what "exact change" really means, reasons why a person might want to add the dime, and so forth. All in all, a nice way to waste eight minutes.

I rarely pay in cash, but when I do I often manipulate my change -- for various reasons: to get quarters for parking meters, to get rid of coins/ avoid getting a lot of new ones, to get rid of singles or to get more, depending on my needs.

I'm almost 50 years old, by the way. I remember when a candy bar cost a nickel, but I don't think that really has anything to do with the denominations of coins and bills with which I choose to pay. Or.... does it....?

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Grinding mondo peppercorns

Do younger people pay with folding money only?