Salt shakers in Buenos Aires restaurants also feature coffee beans. I'm not sure why this is the case. (I've seen salt shakers featuring uncooked rice as well, and am equally perplexed by that. Is it a moisture thing?) But as this combines two of my favorite substances, it might just prove to be a discovery of the same magnitude as penicillin.
Indeed, it's a desiccant. Whenever my mom baked cookies she'd throw a piece of whitebread into the tin to soak up moisture faster than the cookies. Worked great in care packages. Is your mom sending cookies to Argentina Brian?
Posted by: kilroi | April 11, 2007 at 02:34 PM
You'll find rice in salt shakers in most of the tropical world. It is a desiccant to keep the salt from sticking to itself and creating huge crystals. Coffee beans on the other hand? Not really sure that would act as a desiccant at all. Maybe because mate would have just clogged the shaker.
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