# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/21 "2019-09-03T13:25:47Z")
If you’re going to leave the salt out, just bring me a glass of tequila. ---
**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, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/22 "2019-09-03T15:42:20Z")
> [@sps49sd](#): > > I’m sorry, but a gimlet is gin and Rose’s Lime Juice. > > According to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. Yeah, I read **The Last Goodbye** too. Each novel seems to have had its signature drink: in **Farewell, My Lovely** Marlowe and Moose Malloy enjoy whiskey sours in a “smoke bar.” “Smoke” being a derogatory term for an African American that I’ve never seen anywhere else. Rose’s Lime is sugar and lime juice in a bottle. I just like to squeeze my own lime and measure my own sugar. In any case, the last time I ordered a Gimlet was in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, as my own little Chandler tribute. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/23 "2019-09-03T21:13:26Z")
I like salt on the rim. I HATE salt IN my drink. I have sent back salty margaritas. I will get all Karen on your ass about a salty margarita. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/24 "2019-09-03T21:40:51Z")
I love the salt on the margarita glass rim, but I rarely imbibe all the salt. Worse than salt on the rim? _Sugar_ on the rim of a strawberry margarita. Ugh. Although I haven’t had one of those in about 40 years. Definitely an “introductory” drink…even more than the standard margarita. ---
**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 3, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/25 "2019-09-03T22:05:18Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I love the salt on the margarita glass rim, but I rarely imbibe all the salt. Worse than salt on the rim? _Sugar_ on the rim of a strawberry margarita. Ugh. Although I haven’t had one of those in about 40 years. Definitely an “introductory” drink…even more than the standard margarita. I can deal with the salt, as I know that’s classically how they’re served (though I never salt my rims), but sugar is absolutely contraindicated. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/26 "2019-09-03T23:12:40Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > 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.) This exactly duplicates my reply. I’m also ok with rim salting in a Bloody Mary context. My vote is Yes. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/27 "2019-09-03T23:19:49Z")
On the rocks, no salt. ---
**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 4, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/28 "2019-09-04T00:31:37Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > This exactly duplicates my reply. I’m also ok with rim salting in a Bloody Mary context. My vote is Yes. I agree, although my homemade Bloody Marys are made with V-8 or Clamato (which is really a “Caesar”). Both of which are so loaded with sodium that additional salt would bring on a coronary. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/29 "2019-09-04T19:08:32Z")
Has to be margarita salt. Do not accept normal salt as a substitute. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/30 "2019-09-04T21:11:48Z")
> [@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. The best cocktail etymology I’ve run across is that it’s a Prohibition-era mutation of a drink style called a Daisy, which was originally spirits, lemon juice, sweetener (alcoholic or not), and soda water. Make it with tequila and lime juice, and leave out the soda water, and you have a Margarita on the rocks. With that in mind, I don’t think that the name is a coincidence; Margarita is Spanish for “Daisy”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606/31 "2019-09-05T04:45:49Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > If you’re going to leave the salt out, just bring me a glass of tequila. I can get behind this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-salt-on-the-rim-of-your-margarita/839606.md?page=1)