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Outhouse Salt and Pepper Shakers

Not just any set of outhouse salt and pepper shakers qualifies as a tacky treasure. When they come with helpful instructions such as "Fill-er up with P" and "Fill-er up with S," then they go beyond your usual outhouse cliché. Even without the information that the shaker is "full of P," why would anyone take something that looks like an outhouse and shake its contents on one's food? It is the explicitness of the gag (pun intended) that makes it, for me, a tacky treasure.

Surely the only thing that would make these tackier is to have the outhouse doors open to show a guy in overalls who turns and squirts you. But then, where would you put the salt and pepper?