Pepperpot

The Ninth Doctor plays with a salt and pepper shaker, clearly mocking the appearance of the Dalek race. (COMIC: Four Doctors)

A pepperpot was an object used to hold pepper.

Daleks were often compared to pepperpots in terms of appearance. A Venusian colonist called them "animated pepperpots". (COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks) Vicki said that the Dalek casing on display in the Moroks' Space Museum on Xeros looked like "a giant pepperpot". (PROSE: The Space Museum) On Vulcan, Kebble called them "big pepperpots". (TV: The Power of the Daleks) Rachel Jensen called them "a bunch of tin-plated pepperpots". (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Adam Mitchell described the Metaltron as a "great big pepperpot". (TV: Dalek)