I've got a grinder with chunks of this stuff. It comes from mines near the Himalayas in Pakistan that were formed millions of years ago when an ancient ocean dried up. They say it's more nutritious than regular salt because it contains minerals and other nutrients. I'm sure it also contains the remains of everything that died in that ocean. Yum!!!

My container has a "Best Buy Date" of 2021.

I fail to understand how salt that's millions of years old can go bad a few years after it was packaged. It still tastes salty, so I'm not throwing it out!

Now I need to check and see if my bottled water is still good...

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Yeah, my Isopropyl Alcohol has a "freshness date" in 2025. I'm not losing sleep over it. Joe

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Sniff it to see if it still smells ok, but I think it's good until it turns green.

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On its expiration date, you'll have to throw it out and trample it underfoot. Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

This is the USDA story on "best by" dating on food products. https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safet...product-dating

The FDA requires a "Best By Date" on anything you consume. Salt when exposed to Oxygen and/or humidity begins a slow process of deterioration. Being in a grinder or container slows that down as opposed to being in a bowl.

I find that my bottles of water and containers of salt expiring is one of the best First World problems to have, pretty much, "No harm/No foul!", but still gives me the entertainment of complaining about it!

I see I'm in good company!

Ivan

This stays at Ruthie's end of the table. I suspect she is a descendant of the late Mrs. Lot.

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Nutritional value? Asked the cardiologist if there was a “not so bad salt” and he said to stay away from all salt. I know it’s in everything! I pay attention to his advice because of having quadruple bypass 1 1/2 yrs ago. Just use less or none, Larry

It's rather sad watching guests over the years scan the table looking for salt before they have even tasted their food. Salt has become a reflex for too many, so the look of growing angst rising towards panic as they scan the table ever more frantically does give me a kind of perverse pleasure. Could this be why so few come to dinner here?

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A good friend of mine was a recruiter for a very large, now defunct accounting firm. If at an interview lunch or dinner a prospective candidate put salt or pepper on their food prior to tasting they got no second interview.
The only exception was for a 6'-8" SEC power forward grad they wanted for their city business basketball team.

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Salt (sodium chloride) does not react with oxygen and therefore can not deteriorate in the presence of oxygen. As we all know, salt can clump when exposed to excessive moisture, but that's a physical, not chemical, change and salt that's been affected by moisture can be dried and returned to its original state - perhaps requiring a little grinding - with no deterioration.

Mandating an expiration or "best by" date on salt, as is the case for many other foods, is just government over-regulated silliness. Many such dates are simply made up and not backed by any theoretical or empirical science.

I have see the salt addicted at work a few times. They can be rather opinionated for a fact but no where up to the ketchup slupers. Its a wonder some of then do not mix it in their coffee or tea.!

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There is no federal requirement for food label "sell by" or "use before" dates, except for baby food. Read the attachment to my posting #6 above.

Some of us just knooooow......
It's a gift.

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Just so you know the Abominable Snowman pees pink.

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I seldom use salt, but I do put black pepper on most everything. Prevents radiation poisoning.

All salt is just NaCl, no matter where it came from, what color it is, or how old it is. And Kosher salt was not blessed by a Rabbi either.

The best use of table salt is to keep your beer mug from sticking to your bar napkin.

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If my pee was pink, I'd see a doctor.

Back when I played sports and worked in factories, salt tablets were given out like candy.

My doctor wants me to cut out salt, but he doesn't eat meat. I should probably find another doctor.

Eggs... Good, bad, good, bad. Fowl would be extinct without them. Just saying...

Butter or margarine? You better bet your butt I buy butter. Moo!

The best boss I ever had taught me that trick!

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Made me laugh out laud, some great "Dry Humor", thanks!

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They used to make us take them at summer camp back in the early 60's. Every once in awhile they'd make you throw up.

Some of us are salty all on our own. We just top off the tank, so to speak. 🙂

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If this pink salt was that good it would be advertised on TV.

I'll pass.

Quite true. If it had been named by a person literate in both English and Yiddish, it would have been called "kashering salt." It is salt (usually not a complicated product) that happens to be of the right granulation (somewhat coarse) for part of the process of presenting kosher meat to the public for use.

About the original post: just a misunderstanding. That 2021 was a typo - it was intended to be 5021, and that was only because of an abundance of caution over the packaging.

Hope this clears things up.

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You're scared to eat pink salt ?

If salt didn’t have an expiration date, you wouldn’t throw it out and buy new salt. How would the salt companies make obscene profits?

I've never thrown salt away . The date means nothing to me .

Matthew had a very good idea about what to do with unsavory politicians

Reminds me of how my Dad shoveled coal into the coal cellars back during the Depression.
Many of the old ?&$%? would have him shovel the “old” coal out before he shoveled in the “new” coal.
He said “it’s been in the ground for a million years. What difference is a few months.”

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Coal catches fire on it's sharp edges. It can ignite if a fire is already burning but ignites much better if the edge cuts are crisp/

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We eat beets regularly in this house. You get used to it.

I grew up being the furnace tender in our house. Very familiar with operation and management of a basement coal bin, shoveling coal into the furnace, and carrying out the ashes. Never thought too much about the angularity of coal or how old it was. Not unusual that a lump of coal was too large to go through the furnace door. Kept a sledge hammer in the bin for such needs. At least during the winter, that furnace was also the household trash incinerator for anything that would burn. All my experience with coal came in handy several years later, but that is a different story.

When I left home to attend college, the first thing my father did was to replace the coal furnace with a new fuel oil furnace. He put two fuel oil tanks in the coal bin.

Not in the least. The body needs salt and IMO no one salt is better than the other no matter how it's marketed.

Me and Mr. Morton are very well acquainted. I used a lot of kosher salt curing hams etc.. Never really understood why the Jewish didn't eat ham if you used Kosher salt on it. Well it sounds good I think!

I thought we had a no religion rule

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A list of common salts


14 Types of Salt, When and How to Use Each, and Substitutions

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We received one of these as a gift. Supposed to emit magical health benefits!

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Veruca is my least favorite.

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Never before heard of smoked salt. Good that the author stressed the point that all salt is chemically the same except for differences in physical form and color.

To be seated below the salt, indicates a guest is held in low esteem, and a return visit would be quite doubtful.
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Have never seen that phrase used before.Sit below the salt - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Some folks have a salt deficiency and the easiest way to get salt into their system is to salt their food. I rather enjoy salt on the majority of my food and some of my beers.

Kevin

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My dad would salt his beer and watermelon.

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I think ham and bacon was about the only things my Dad didn’t put salt on.
He would put butter, on almost everything, too.
Pall Mall cigarettes got him before the food did.
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My former best friend was a "saltaholic", he just would shake and shake salt on everything. he had high BP by 25, and when the Dr found out, from his wife, how much salt he used, he said, "Cut out most of that salt, and you'll be fine!". He did, and was. A white top burger is a very odd thing, and it's not good.

My late mother had a high blood pressure issue for years, and she wanted to make sure that I didn't develop one. She told me that I shouldn't be adding any salt at all to food, as processed food had enough salt to take care of daily requirements. I listened to her, and I discovered that I didn't miss the additional salt at all, and her advice worked for me for a good 50 years. I have to take medication now, but the elevation didn't go very high. For the last several years I've been reading the nutritional readings on food and that helps me avoid overdoing the salt.

I don't recommend coarse salt as the bore of a Bug-A-Salt can't handle it.

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Ice cold Modelo with salt and lime is hard to beat

May not have any medicinal value but IMO the only salt worth using is garlic salt.