• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Some people have a (genetic?) predisposition to really like salt on things. I had a friend where most of their family salted things you wouldn’t expect and had lots of salty foods. Salt on melon slices for instance, snack foods like pickles and such. Dad died of a heart attack. No idea if it’s related.

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      5 days ago

      Salt on melon is legit, if you apply only a light amount and let the salt spread through the watery flesh before eating it then it actually makes it taste much sweeter without being salty tasting.

      • Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml
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        5 days ago

        Salt & chili powder is the best. A brand called Tajín is pretty good and is sold in pretty much every Hispanic grocery store

    • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      My gran loved salt, and would pour a pile of it onto her plate to dip things in. My mum’s always been more of a health freak than her mother, but as she’s gotten older her cooking has started including noticeably more salt.

    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      That was my family, the food wasn’t salty per se but they’d put salt on most things, once on the table,including watermelon, actually not bad.