Not Salt / Not Pepper shakers

It shouldn't be confusing but to me it is. From the mind of Ben Greenman.

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Tim

Makes me think of that march chant:
Not your left
Not your left
Not your left
Your right.
(repeat indefinitely while marching).
Anonymous

since no one has posted this yet, I’ve gotta go with: “not salt” is pepper, and “not pepper” is salt …. ;-)
Fantastico

¬ Salt ⊃ Pepper
¬ Pepper ⊃ Salt
mdh

when in doubt, the salt shaker almost always has more holes.
- skabob
  
  LIES! LIES! DISINFORMATION! HERETIC! BURN HER!
  
  There’s no standard, it seems to be a personal preference, like folding or wadding toilet paper (please don’t start that one either).
Art

Not Bad.

Not Good.
wygit

The restroom signs in the Fanny Ann’s in Old Sacramento have been a source of amusement and confusion for almost 40 years.

http://bit.ly/i7iXMs

(The women’s is on the right)
robcat2075

Don’t worry, they’re not real, they’re just something hastily done in an image-editing app.
phlavor

How about “Salt” and “Also salt, but one of us is lying” shakers.
Anonymous

Yeah, it only works if salt and pepper are the only options.
I do like “P and ~P” though – condiments for philosophers and mathematicians! FTW!
Anonymous

They both have sugar in them, right?
friendpuppy

All you need to do is leave the lids off, then put the lid back on for a few seconds while you dispense the seasoning.
notasheep

MMmm, the fun — they’re both cayenne pepper!
Moriarty

Sodium powder and powdered hemlock.
- Marja
  
  Just as long as neither has powdered cilantro leaves.
  - skeletoncityrepeater
    
    Wouldn’t you called powdered cilantro leaves ‘coriander’?
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      No. Coriander refers to the seeds. At least in the US.
bzishi

I’d feel better if the labels said “not strychnine”, because otherwise it might be. It is best to be safe when you are dealing with food labels.
Moriarty

Sodium powder and powdered hemlock.
Baron Karza

Rather a negative outlook I’d say! I suppose each one is really half empty too.
kmoser

I would like to see a white pepper mill and a black salt shaker.
Baldhead

As someone who uses salt almost never and pepper absolutely never (well.. black pepper- every other pepper is superior in every way possible) these would be useless. Great, however if you assume an 8- spice spice rack must have duplicates.
desiredusername

An excellent case for the reason why binary oppositions are so popular in human discourse.
Sork

They’re both lightbulbs.
Anonymous

At first glance, I would assume they are just opposites. As “desiredusername” said, “binary opposition”.

Thus I would assume the Not Salt has pepper

and

the Not Pepper has salt :)

Love the concept.
tylerkaraszewski

So what, they’re paprika and garlic powder?
wgmleslie

I suppose technically speaking that anything but their respective “nots” could be in those shakers.