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From: "David Patterson" <>
Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Pass the sugar please
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:52:06 -0600
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I hope someone does not come to visit and adds salt to their coffee or tea.
But, yes I do remember them. I remember, also, metal containers used for
cream. They had an attached flip back lid.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vee L. Housman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:25 PM
Subject: [PD-LIFE] Pass the sugar please


> Dear Group,
>
> Do you remember sitting up at the counter at a diner or the counter in
Woolworth's 5 & 10 and the person sitting next to you asked you to "Pass the
sugar, please"? Of course, you were only too glad to oblige him, you
reached for the sugar container that was in front of you and handed it to
him. He said, "Thank you."
>
> Now I don't know if restaurants or the like still use them. I rather
doubt it. Restaurants now have small packets of sugar or Sweet 'N Low. But
back when I used to sit up at counters for breakfast or lunch or a hot fudge
sundae a sugar container was of clear ribbed glass about six inches high
with a chrome screw-on cap that had a little hinged flap where the sugar
poured out of.
>
> A number of years ago at a yard sale I saw one of them and I knew in a
second that I wanted it for myself. No not for sugar, for grated Parmesan
cheese. And that's how I used it for a number of years. But eventually I
got tired of refilling it and so I put it away.
>
> Today, however, I resurrected it for a different purpose. Not for sugar,
not for Parmesan cheese but for SALT! I was tired of seeing the aging round
cardboard box of Morton salt with the picture of the little girl with the
big umbrella and the slogan, "When it rains, it pours" staring me in the
face as it sat on the ledge on the back of my stove.
>
> When I finally found where I had stored it, I lovingly cleaned it,
polished it and filled it with salt. It looks so nice sitting there in
place of the old cardboard box and I even got to use it today to add salt to
a pot of boiling water.
>
> But there's one thing that I always wondered about it. I don't ever
remember seeing them for sale in the 5 & 10 or elsewhere and I wonder if it
had been stolen from a diner! Well if the police ever arrest me for
possession of stolen goods, I guess I should also mention to them that I
have a little glass milk pitcher that someone must have filched from the
counter at a diner. Back in the olden days, milk wasn't served in little
plastic individual containers. The pitchers were small clear glass ones
about three inches tall. Mine gains in beauty as the years go by.
>
> And I guess to make a full confession of stolen goods that I treasure,
I'll have to give the police the glass ash trays and the shot glasses and
the cocktail glasses that I eventually ended up with. But hopefully they
won't confiscate the fancy plastic cocktail stirrers that I collected over
my early adult life as Daddy did before me.
>
> I guess that my only hope is that they let me get my hair done before they
take a mug shot of me!
> vee
>
>

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