Pickles by Brian Crane for October 03, 2024

you still have to lift the fork up to your mouth

Two more things you have to remember to charge.

Manual pepper mills are torture for those with arthritis of the hands.

These days, I exercise my options and jog my memory. Oh, and stretch my fish stories…

I like my salt to come out of the million year old salt mines. Sea salt has micro plastics, so has lost it’s appeal as a marketing vector.

Electric salt and pepper mills? Okay Opal, then you can be the one to fire the domestic servants

I imagine batteries not included?!

And just another thing to buy batteries for!

How soon until those salt and pepper shakers become “smart” so we have to use our phones to operate them? Will they send us a text telling us they need to be refilled, or will they automatically order refills from some etailer?

…that and the Refrigerator Door Pull

Uh, the whole point is that you don’t shake them, and you get freshly ground seasonings.

He’ll still get arm lifts because he has to pick it up,

When I gave blood last month, the tech told me that the pink band she used is great for opening jars. She said she’d never notice if I slipped it into my purse.I LOVE that band! I wrap it around pickle jars, olive jars – anything I can’t open, and it works like a charm. I had to give more blood last week and one slipped into my purse for my sister,

How do you refill these gizmos? With my arthritis, it’s become difficult to open & close (properly) the ordinary shakers when filling them.

Next they’ll invent a speaker that you tell to turn on your lights….

It made me laugh.

Horrible thought, does Earl shake his booty to exercise the rest of him?!

Now that he mentioned it, me too. Thanks, Earl!

I married a dietician, and our saltshaker disappeared “mysteriously”, about 10 years ago. How I miss that little sucker.

I get lots of exercise – jumping to conclusions, rolling my eyes, pushing the envelope…

Some time ago I read a story of a guy inviting his girlfriend to dinner at his home with his parents. The girlfriend had trouble with the saltshaker even though she could the salt inside. Turns out his parents were frugal and had put the salt from bag of pretzels in the saltshaker. Definitely could have used an electric salt grinder.

In the year 2525 if man is still alive……that song was so true

The KING of lazy is complaining about automation.?

Well, now you will maintain strength in your thumbs…

next thing you know they’ll have an auto grunter for the throne and I’ll lose my deep breathing exercises.

Hey Earl look at it this way, you are no longer a Boomer, you are now a Gen Z’er. Just watch out, in case Opal decides you need some gages.

Just another way to separate you from your money.

They only cost $20 each and are non-refillable so once their empty you have to buy two new ones.

Disposable income, disposable dispensables, disposable planet

Why don’t they make one for sugar??

Attaboy Earl…….

If my beloved Earl goes downhill now we will know who is to blame.

I trust you were not favoring one hand : you don’t want uneven development!

Bought from the Electric Company (A TV show from the 70s.)

I’ve been known to attach a cordless drill to a pepper mill when I need a half-cup of freshly ground pepper for a dry rub. Too bad I can’t post it or a URL here.