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Pepper shakers normally have more holes than a salt shaker because pepper granules are generally bigger than salt granules. This answers the question because you don't want salt rushing out of the shaker a million miles per hour and the pepper to come out at a snails pace. This sort of evens out the rate of speed that it will come out.
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I always thought it was so you know which has salt in and which has pepper in so you don't put the wrong thing on your food by accident
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It probably comes from the 'olden' days when we weren't so concerned about salt in our diets. People would sprinkle salt quite liberally on their food, so more holes in the shaker meant it came out faster and you could get on with eating all that good grub sooner. Back then, even pepper was considered a bit exotic by some folks (and was more expensive to boot) and they wouldn't use as much. Besides if you used too much, it pretty much ruined your food. So it was used in shakers that sprinkled more gently, hence fewer and smaller holes. Of course, you can put salt in a pepper shaker and vice versa. What you do with your condiments is no one else's business!
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