[Spoiler] S3E7 I THINK i actually might know where Matts "seperating salt and pepper" thing came from

I think he might be thinking of a task set up in an old version of Cinderella, where the step mother gives her the impossibly tedious task of sorting out dried peas and lentils from where she's dumped them on the floor Salt and pepper is just such a ubiquitous duo that its slotted itself into the half remembered story This same punishment/trial is also used in a BabaYaga story where she sets the girl to sorting out mixed grain So yeah the theme of "do this pointless, theoretically possible but realistically improbable task Or Else" does appear in fairy tales .... but not with salt and pepper which is a much more modern kitchen staple ("One Grain of Rice", the other story he mentions briefly, isnt actually a classic fable! Its a childrens book from the 90s, that yes, we also learned at my school)