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Old 12-15-2012, 06:19 AM   #762
Trilby
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
...Highly processed and with enough salt to transform your bloodstream into the Dead Sea,
I'm a bit ashamed to say it but I LIKE my bloodstream that way.

with freshly cracked coarse black pepper, too.

give me a choice between salt and sugar and I'll take salt.

I even wrote a poim about salt, I love it so.

Of course I'm bloated like a blowfish, but I loves me some salt.

I like it's magical properties, too. And the fact that you can foil your enemies with it. It's handy stuff to have.

eta: interesting note got from bill bryson --- the world salary is derived from the word salt---which is what roman soldiers were sometimes paid in.
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