On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:36:56 GMT, sf > wrote:

>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:48:52 -0600, "jmcquown"
> wrote:
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>> I am a salt fanatic. And I have to think, back before there were food
>> police, salt was as much of a commodity as pepper and spices were. So if
>> someone ran across a mound of salt and dug some out and put it in their
>> pouch for trading later, they weren't concerned about 'grade'.
>
>I've used rock salt in my salt grinder for years and I'm not
>dead yet.

Good to know. :-) I haven't yet gone through my fancy-schmancy packet
of salt-grinder salt, so though a *great* deal more expensive than
ice-cream salt, the initial purchase is still adequate. It would take
me a million years to consume 5lb of salt, but if I *did* make ice
cream and had a salt grinder, I'd save out a couple of ounces.