• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    You obviously don’t know how salt works.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/42388

    Besides, the actual origin of “take with a grain of salt” comes from Pliny the Elder, who believed salt to be part of a cure for poison.

    His actual words were “addito salis grano” or add a grain of salt.

    He believed this because salt suppresses bitter flavors and most poisonous things taste fairly bitter.

    The phase “cum grano salis” or with a grain of salt, then entered latin, and eventually a few other languages.