# On the omnipresence of food-snobbery in everyday recipes

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**Created:** [December 22, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-omnipresence-of-food-snobbery-in-everyday-recipes/995007 "2023-12-22T20:28:51Z")\
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well … and then there is Salzburg, literally SALT and BURG

… for pretty much the same reason … some 500 years before … _ze tutch in ze carribiean_

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-omnipresence-of-food-snobbery-in-everyday-recipes/995007/242 "2024-01-18T20:06:32Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> pretzel salt - large grains, usually fairly regular, not iodized, more of a crunchy texture to the teeth when bitten into.

I have heard that pretzel salt in the US is from one specific salt dome in Texas and that the minerals other then NaCl make it particularly go well with pretzel dough.

[This site](https://goodfoodandfarawayplaces.com/2019/04/01/old-salts-salt-licks-and-pretzels/) confirms the former but mentions nothing about the latter.

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-omnipresence-of-food-snobbery-in-everyday-recipes/995007/243 "2024-01-18T20:56:52Z")

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It says that the salt is ‘too pure’ for other uses toward the end of the article so perhaps not of lot of other mineral flavors happening.

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