Query: why "salt and pepper" but not "pepper and salt"?

[Duane Campbell]

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> Doesn't the stress pattern have something to do with it? Who ever heard of
> a=
> =20
> Pony and Dog Show? Who remembers buggy and horse days? Is anybody tired
> and=20
> sick of all these questions?

It's all that Shakespeare in high school. The only thing we remember is
"iambic pentameter", but we remember that very well.

D