# Do you like salt on the rim of your margarita? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606 "2019-09-02T23:06:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/1 "2019-09-02T23:06:26Z")
I most certainly do and I can’t imagine why people don’t. Why yes, it is a $5 margarita Monday as well as a holiday, but I still am amazed at all the people who think that salt on the rim of their margarita is the same as putting cyanide on the rim. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/2 "2019-09-02T23:19:10Z")
It is. Can’t stand a salted rim. I want to taste the tequila and lime, not rock. If it comes salted it gets sent back. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/3 "2019-09-02T23:21:55Z")
What cracks me up is when the margarita arrives with salt on the rim… and a straw. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/4 "2019-09-02T23:24:58Z")
No salt for me, gracias. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/5 "2019-09-02T23:27:48Z")
Yes please. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/6 "2019-09-02T23:27:56Z")
Isn’t that what a margarita is? If your not having salt on the rim you are having something but not having a margarita. The title should be do you like margaritas. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/7 "2019-09-03T00:08:46Z")
I like salt on the rim, but may I have a Salty Dog, please? (Gin and fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, highball-style. I’m not crazy about Margaritas.) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/8 "2019-09-03T00:12:03Z")
I like the taste of salt on the rim of margaritas, but have had issues with high blood pressure since high school, and have been told since high school to cut back on my sodium intake. For that reason, I try not to add salt to anything if I can avoid it. Even when I’ve asked waitstaff and bartenders to put salt only on part of the rim in the past, it still seems like a lot of the salt ends up in the drink, so I usually just say “no salt.” I will rarely send a drink back if it shows with salt, though, because I don’t want to be a [Milton](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loOe1zqJjgg). Though if it shows up with [big grains of salt](http://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/office-space/quote_16876.html) floating in the glass, I might. 😉 (I do make one exception to my no-added salt rule, and that is for hash browns.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/9 "2019-09-03T00:19:42Z")
The Margarita is just a mid-20th-century variation on a brunch of other booze-lime juice cocktails, with an additional splash of orange liqueur. Gimlet: Gin and lime juice. Daiquiri: Rum and lime juice. Whiskey Sour: Blended whiskey or bourbon with sweetened lemon juice. All of these are “cocktail” (undiluted) versions of the age-old tradition of “punch:” “One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, and four of weak.” A contemporary take on “punch” would be the Tom Collins: a double shot of gin over ice in a 16 oz glass with lemon juice and sugar, topped with seltzer. (Also its brothers: the John Collins (whiskey), the Rum Collins, and the Vodka Collins.) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/10 "2019-09-03T00:24:30Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > What cracks me up is when the margarita arrives with salt on the rim… and a straw. I like to go back and forth. One sip from the salty rim, and two sips from the straw. I like salt, but not too much salt. Also, Kosher salt. Not that nasty Margarita salt. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/11 "2019-09-03T00:32:47Z")
And it better be **on the rocks!** Slushee margaritas are overly-sweetened crap meant for frat boys and bridesmaids. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/12 "2019-09-03T00:35:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And it better be **on the rocks!** Slushee margaritas are overly-sweetened crap meant for frat boys and bridesmaids. Yup, the day I graduated college was the day I gave up frozen margaritas. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/13 "2019-09-03T00:46:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And it better be **on the rocks!** Slushee margaritas are overly-sweetened crap meant for frat boys and bridesmaids. I like ‘em shaken and served straight. It’s a COCKTAIL. And slushee daiquiris are even WORSE than slushee margaritas. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/14 "2019-09-03T00:48:08Z")
The salt is the best part! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/15 "2019-09-03T00:55:01Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > The salt is the best part! Then you’re not making them right. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/16 "2019-09-03T01:20:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Then you’re not making them right. 😛 Sipping through the salt is the WHOLE POINT of the margarita. Otherwise, you’d be better off with a daiquiri. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/17 "2019-09-03T02:50:53Z")
I generally don’t like salt, but it works with a margarita. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/18 "2019-09-03T03:33:15Z")
Yes, but the next should have [Tajin](https://www.amazon.com/Taj%C3%ADn-Cl%C3%A1sico-Seasoning-Rimmer-4-23/dp/B06XK91JV7/ref=sr_1_6) instead of salt. ---
**Author:** ![sps49sd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@sps49sd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sps49sd)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/19 "2019-09-03T03:33:39Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > The Margarita is just a mid-20th-century variation on a brunch of other booze-lime juice cocktails, with an additional splash of orange liqueur. > > **Gimlet: Gin and lime juice.** > Daiquiri: Rum and lime juice. > Whiskey Sour: Blended whiskey or bourbon with sweetened lemon juice… I’m sorry, but a gimlet is gin and Rose’s Lime Juice. According to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/20 "2019-09-03T11:40:29Z")
Of course I want the rim salted, that’s a margarita. Maybe I’ll wipe away some salt and drink from there, maybe I’ll consume every last salt grain, depends on my mood. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606.md?page=2)