# Salt tits. and it's not about what you would like it to be about, ya pervs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 20, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904 "2000-11-20T01:35:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904/1 "2000-11-20T01:35:55Z")
Why is the road salt for road use stored in buildings that look like a big nipple? 1.Is it because of spacing and storage? (Although, I don’t know why a tit would be better for storage than say a regular square.) 2.Or the way the air circulates and the need to keep the salt from warming and clumping together? 1. It’s always been stored in a salt tit and nobody thought to do it differently? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904/2 "2000-11-20T02:41:51Z")
Salt, like sand naturally forms a conical pile when you try to collect it in a heap. If you try to fight this tendancy and collect it into a cubical shape you have to reinforce the walls of your container in order to handle the outward pressure of the salt. Building reinforced walls is MUCH more expensive than simply allowing the salt to have its way and building a cheap conical building around it. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904/3 "2000-11-20T04:52:34Z")
Such a simple answer, yet I can’t help wishing it was more, well, salacious. Not that my mind’s in the salt cellar, you understand, but neither am I a Shaker. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904/4 "2000-11-20T09:14:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Not that my mind’s in the salt cellar, you understand, but neither am I a Shaker. how long have you been waiting to say that, aseymayo? you guys kill me. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904/5 "2000-11-20T12:55:52Z")
Damn… this thread really _was_ not about what I thought it was about… and me with a bottle of tequila all ready… _sigh_! ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-tits-and-its-not-about-what-you-would-like-it-to-be-about-ya-pervs/41904/6 "2000-11-20T14:21:15Z")
I always called them “salt domes.” Whenever I pass one on the highway, I comment that there could be oil under there…nobody gets it.