# I crave salt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975 "2005-05-22T18:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pensandfeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Pensandfeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pensandfeathers)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/21 "2005-05-24T05:53:01Z")
Yeah, I think I’m fine. I just want salt. Now I want chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/22 "2005-05-24T08:09:49Z")
Last month, at that delicate monthly time, I finished half a jar of dry roasted peanuts and still had a salt jones. I sat back in my chair, and surveyed the snack foods in my closet – nothing going there. So I cracked open a Minute Maid Lite and contemplated my situation. I could run to the convenience store, but that would involve putting on pants. My eyes fell on the empty peanut jar and saw it had about a tablespoon of salt in it. I poured it into my hand and ate it one damp finger-full at a time. It was quite possibly the most satisfying thing I’ve eaten in recent history. I bow before **kaiwik** ’s love for salt. Having licked a cow’s salt lick, I can only marvel at your dedication. Were they big brown ones or white? Blech to both, but more so to the brown. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/23 "2005-05-24T09:25:09Z")
I used to love those big crystals of rock salt. Mmm, I want some now. When I have a major salt craving, I eat salt and vinegar potato chips. Especially Cape Cod Sea Salt and Vinegar. Delicious, but they will make your lips sore. It’s worth it. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/24 "2005-05-24T10:44:39Z")
You’re not the only one that craves salt: [The inevitable Star Trek link !!!](http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/M-113_creature) ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/25 "2005-05-24T11:33:32Z")
[May I make a suggestion?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314344) I’m getting more mileage outa that one dinky thread . . . ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/26 "2005-05-24T11:34:21Z")
> [@Genghis Bob](#): > > [May I make a suggestion?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314344) > > I’m getting more mileage outa that one dinky thread . . . Been there, ate that. It was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/27 "2005-05-24T11:43:23Z")
I am glad to know there are other salt lovers out there. The sweet lovers drown us out sometimes. I can keep a block of choccy in the fridge for eons, it really doesn’t interest me. A packet of chips? MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM They have to escape…down my gullet. I believe some of us are salty and some sweet, we will never quite understand the other. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/28 "2005-05-24T11:46:48Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > I am glad to know there are other salt lovers out there. The sweet lovers drown us out sometimes. > > I can keep a block of choccy in the fridge for eons, it really doesn’t interest me. A packet of chips? MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM They have to escape…down my gullet. > > I believe some of us are salty and some sweet, we will never quite understand the other. Well, you do have some folks who bridge the gap, like me, but I’m tipped a little to the salty side. When my cousin Amy and I were kids, we would buy a packet of Skittles (sweet) and a packet of sunflower seeds (salty) and dump them together in a bowl. Best of both worlds, yum. Funnily enough I tried that again a couple of months ago and I didn’t like it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/29 "2005-05-24T12:01:32Z")
Choccy or salted Cashews? The choccy dies neglected. Deprive me of salt and you die! When I was pregnant all I wanted was sweet. The human body can be clever sometimes. It craves what you need. Of course I gave birth to a sugar fiend and I still luuuuurve salt, so maybe the human body knows bugger all sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/30 "2005-05-24T12:03:14Z")
Oh, yes, cashews. Hold me back! Looks like I’m going shopping today. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/31 "2005-05-24T12:10:00Z")
My mother loves saying “Would you like some dinner with your salt” 😃 I could live on Cashews…oh and Pistaschios…oh and chips 🙂 (you need Marmite!) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/32 "2005-05-24T12:11:58Z")
I fear Marmite yet am strangely attracted by the idea. Perhaps I should try to order some from somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/33 "2005-05-24T12:29:16Z")
Marmite is salty goodness. Drop me an email…I have several free promotional little jars at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/34 "2005-05-24T13:29:32Z")
E-mail sent. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/35 "2005-05-24T13:36:53Z")
Mmmm…salt. I love salt, salt salt salt! I used to put so much on my food as a kid that my sister claimed I would die of a heart attack befoer I was 18, I proved her wrong, though! ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/36 "2005-05-24T15:38:40Z")
> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#): > > Last month, at that delicate monthly time, I finished half a jar of dry roasted peanuts and still had a salt jones. I sat back in my chair, and surveyed the snack foods in my closet – nothing going there. So I cracked open a Minute Maid Lite and contemplated my situation. I could run to the convenience store, but that would involve putting on pants. My eyes fell on the empty peanut jar and saw it had about a tablespoon of salt in it. I poured it into my hand and ate it one damp finger-full at a time. It was quite possibly the most satisfying thing I’ve eaten in recent history. > > I bow before **kaiwik** ’s love for salt. Having licked a cow’s salt lick, I can only marvel at your dedication. Were they big brown ones or white? Blech to both, but more so to the brown. I finished my bag of pretzle sticks (they seem to have more salt on them than the traditional shape) last night, and still wanted salty…the store was closed, (this town shuts down at 10:00) nothing good in the kitchen, so I, too, licked salt and pretzle crumbs off my finger tip…mmmmmm! The salt licks were a pinkish color, and they weren’t wonderful, but we were on a small farm, and the grandparents did not believe in chips or any other salty snack. The rock salt was wonderful though! I do enjoy **good** chocolate, but in extreme moderation. I don’t bother with grocery store sweets though. Hershey bars, yuck, I can taste the wax in them. _shudder_ and non-chocolate candies, for the most part, don’t interest me. Chick-O-Sticks and Reeses Cups are acceptable substitutes, but only during that special week _before_. Miss Purl McKnittington, are we sisters who were seperated at birth? lol! ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/37 "2005-05-24T16:10:16Z")
Another “old salt” here. I pretty much eat healthy to keep my weight where I want it. But I must put salt on my meat and veggies. Just don’t taste right without it. My favorite salty meal? Homemade fried chicken, salted of course. I do like chocolate but any other sweets…meh…well, maybe a piece of pumpkin cheesecake now and then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/38 "2005-05-24T16:16:22Z")
I ordered a few ‘gourmet’ salts awhile back, just to experiment, and not expecting to love them as much as I do. My personal favorite is a [Danish Viking-Smoked Sea Salt](http://www.salttraders.com/Detail.bok?no=1) that you’ve just got to taste to believe. Nice, smoky flavor. Actually, I tried a few from salttraders, the Peruvian Pink, the Australian Murray River Flakes, and Hawaiian Black Lava Salt. All really, really good. The flakes are excellent on a Caprese salad, and the Peruvian Pink has replaced a shaker of salt on our dining room table. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/39 "2005-05-24T18:55:20Z")
I’m neither a salt-lover nor a sweet-lover. I eat far less-than-average amounts of each. But now I want salt. Thank you, dopers. 😛 Adam ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975/40 "2005-05-24T18:58:02Z")
> [@kaiwik](#): > > \…but in extreme moderation.\ Is there such a thing as _extreme moderation_? 😃 Adam [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-salt/304975.md?page=3)