Salt and toothpicks

Still at the Pont Hotel in Palermo.



On the table in the lower level restaurant there was a small cut glass dish low and flat in front with salt in it, and raised in the back with toothpicks there. Now this is the only place I have seen this type of dish. My reaction was, this was for a pinch of salt, and when needed a toothpick.



Just now, when trying to find a picture of one for this blog, I saw some other salt dishes which came with a small spoon for the salt. In Palermo the table setting did not include a spoon of this type, and it never dawned on me to use a teaspoon. So I had a pinch of salt on my meal. Which in Palermo did not seem all that unsanitary.