Poll: Have you ever licked a salt lick?

In My Humble Opinion
21

Salt Lick? Are these the reddish blocks of rock salt, that come either in house-brick type for mounting on a wall or post, or in a giant cube-with-rope-hole for putting out in the field? If so I have tried both kinds, many times. Salty. And occasionally horse-saliva-y.

I also used to eat some of the rock salt that came in giant sacks for de-icing driveways, ramps etc. Mmmmmm crunchysalty.

Dog biscuits, horse pellets, horse peas/oats/bran/molasses - all good healthy stuff for small children to eat. Yummy.

22

Sure, when I was a kid. It was one actively used by deer too.

23

Well of course. If it was good enough for my pet rat, it was good enough for me. I also ate her sunflower seeds.

24

What a very odd thing to ask! I find it even more peculiar that anyone who had experienced a salt lick as a child hasn’t partaken in a lick or two.

Since I grew up on a farm, the answer is: certainly I have. I don’t find that gross at all.

Now, if I were to admit that I’ve picked up road salt and tasted that, that would just be weird. [sub]No! I’m not gonna admit to it![/sub]

25

Ohh, I thought you meant a real salt lick, not a salt block. The kind out in the wild, natural, and covered with Deer and Elk shit as they lick, I was going to say hell no.

26

Of course.

We also had a molasses wheel that was tasty, too.

27

Yes, I believe I have - I think it was when I was a child and we had pet guinea pigs - I seem to remember it being distinctly unsalty - it was more like gypsum or something.

28

Do these taste different than those urinal cakes?

29

That was supposed to be “cow shit”. I’ve dealt with my share of chow shit too, but not that much.

30

:slight_smile: haven’t tried alfalfa pellets, but the rest sounds familiar. Knock a small corner off the block and head out into the bush for a day of playing… good times!

31

Indirectly, juice up finger, put finger on block, lick finger. Once was enough.

32

That wasn’t a block, you nitwit, that was my… well, never mind. But keep your hideous juiced up fingers off of me.

33

By any chance have you written an anti-cheese manifesto?

34

Not only have I put paid to all cheesy comestibles in a blistering tract that rocked the Champs-Elysées and staggered them on Wall Street, but I have also led a thunderous protest march at halftime in a Packers game in which I was pelted by sharp cheddar, string cheese, goat milk cheddar and a choice array of Havarti-Muenster. Next stop was Quebec, where I was laid low by the sight of squinky squinky curds swimming in a sea of fries and goop, but recovered sufficiently to eliminate the ubiquitous Le Président brie and a number of lesser fromages from the shelves of a local Provigo.

Why do you ask?

35

Ever been at a party with a bunch of hippies and have some guy tripping balls come out of the master bedroom with a pretty salt crystal and say, “Hey, loooooook! I found a salt lick, duuuuuude!” and start licking the host’s deodorant crystal?
Yeah, me neither, but I keep hoping.

36

Oh yeah!! I would periodically slurp the little salt wheel in the rabbit’s cage. Mmmmm.
I used to lick the inside of the microwave popcorn bag too, until I got put on high blood pressure medication. Damn aging, taking away my salt induced pleasure.

37

Have y’all seen this?

I have not licked a salt lick.

38

What does a urinal cake taste like?

39

As a matter of fact, I have just the other day ! My parents had one on their table when I walked in. They use it for the deer out back, so my niece and I start licking a side of it. It was really tasty.

40

I did when I was a kid, but it had to be a new one, before the horses got to it.