What's your Salt Fetish?

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I have two that come to mind off hand:

1. I love to sip Worcestershire sauce. My mom really worried about that.
2. Every now and then I get a craving for a very salty glass of tomato juice.

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Mom can relax. L&P is low in sodium. About 65mg per teaspoon compared to 2,400mg RDA.

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Oh yes. Worcestershire sauce. I often grab the bottle of Lea and Perrins out of the fridge, twist off the cab, throw my had back and let that luscious elixir dance across my tongue. That had (has) my mom worried as well.

As a kid, before discovering *good* olives, I would often request a jar of green olives with pimentos from the grocery store. The jar would be half empty within 15 minutes of coming out of the grocery store bag. I was the same way with hamburger dill pickles. Now I enjoy my fresh kalamatas and noiçoises with just as much elation as the jarred olives of my youth.

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I'm a total salt freak. (i did have my blood pressure checked the other day and it was OK thank god)

i'll eat anchovies out of the can, on their own.

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pinto beans, pop corn, radishes

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Popcorn. SO can't hardly stand to eat any of it if I have my way. Olives, fresh tomatoes w. salt. Sea salt and vinegar potato chips. Yes, I too like to pour the pickle juice on potato salad and use it in lieu of other vinegar in a salad. Furry fish on pizza and Caesar salad. Soy sauce on rice. Salt from the rim of a margarita.
Oh Lord, I am realizing I have a salt addiction.

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my SO loves eating just plain salt - he doesn't do it a lot, and it's always just a little lick, but i think it's disgusting! it's not just regular table salt, only "special" salt - we have applewood smoked salt, salt mixed with pepper, and other specialty salts he buys from our salt man at the market

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I love all of this stuff- I suppose I'm truly a salt freak because I wouldn't consider most of it on the 'fetishist' level. That term I would reserve for a great salt bagel- those things should inflict actual pain, both from a flavor perspective and from a physical one (they tend to scrape the insides of your mouth. The memorable ones have so much salt topping that you can't even see the bagel through it all; it's one of the things that I get pretty hardcore about. I'm either in for the whole experience or none at all, and wind up eating another type of bagel if the salts don't look too good.

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Half my fridge is taken up with jars of anything pickled... various olives, pickles, artichokes, dilled asparagus, 5 different jars of peppers, but the one that I never let get too low is the 1/2 gallon jar of pickled bologna. It was the daily snack of my parents when I was growing up and now at 51 I have a chunk daily. (here in mid-Michigan we have some sausage companies that make Fabulous pickled bologna and red hots) When I travel I always carry a few of the little single serve pickled sausages from your typical gas station/7-11.

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Original Lays Potato Chips - yahhhh, bring on the salt. And with that, salt rimmed margarita.

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Maldon, Maldon & Maldon... and licking my fingers after I sprinkle Maldon on practically everything!!!

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I salt ham. I eat raw tuna floating in soy sauce with wasabi. I wake up at 3 AM looking for a wrench and a fire hydrant. All worth it.

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I'm not a big salt person but the the one thing I need salt on and lots of it is spinach. Spinach drenched in olive oil and salt....yummm

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Drinking ice cold pickled juice? A cold glass of pickle juice and a great hotdog, doesn't get any better. 

BTW, do you think we will ever embrace a drink/soda that is not sweet. Salty or vigerary drinks can be very refreshing and can be found it certain asian culture but the closest we get the gatoraid. 

Can't drink the stuff the bottle of good fish sauce can also be amazing on anything (much like hot sauce).

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On those days when nothing tastes right I keep adding a little fish sauce, then a little Maggi chicken powder, alternating till it is just right. I figure I drink alot of water and do not have high BP so if I like it, I use it.

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Love my salt!
The rim of a Ceasar (I drink it clockwise using the whole rim!)
Edamame with lots of sea salt
cup a soups
Chex mix
soft pretzels with salt..

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I don't do any of these things anymore but when I as a kid I did these things right out of the cans, jars, bottles, (using a spoon)etc.: Peanut butter, Cocoa, mayonnaise, jelly. raw chopped meat. I know there were others but I can't remember all of them.

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I am a salt freak as well--absolutely could not live without it. We got lucky recently and found chardonnay smoked fleur de sel for $1 (retail between $19-25). Needless to say, we bought all they had (about 10 jars) and it is going fast. When I am craving something, it is salty, hot, crunchy. Luckily, blood pressure has always been low and I am not sure I could curb my salt use if it wasn't.

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A tablespoon of Frank's Red Hot Sauce. Anything dipped in Fish Sauce. Dill pickles. Green olives. Pickled bolonga. I've always had a preference for salty items over sweet.

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bacon bacon bacon

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I am happy to dunk big chunks of watermelon into kosher salt.
I am a sprinkler- most things get a sprinkle of salt (I like to crunch it between my fingers as it falls into the pan)
Things get a sploosh of soy sauce and/or fish sauce and suddenly taste much better.
But if someone dares to ask for salt before they taste what I cooked, I feel a crazy sense of rage. It passes quickly, and it seems to happen only if it's my mother-in-law asking for it. Hmmmmmmmmm

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LOL, I do the Worchestershire sauce sipping too. In a adorable little old shotglass with a flying bird on it that reads "just a swallow" Don't ask my WHY I use that glass, but I do.

My biggest salt fetish started at about age 15. I would take a beef boullion cube and slowly lick it, while watching TV. I'd lick away about half of it, before i'd toss it, or my Mom would scream at me to STOP DOING THAT! She would get a bit upset, and said I was really weird.

The first time I did that in from of my husband, I thought he would pass out right there. He thought I was equally weird, and asked my Mom how I started that little routine. She was just as clueless to any answer. They would not believe I just liked the taste, and the salt!

Lawrey's Seasoning salt would be licked from my hand, in a nice little pile, too. Messier than my beloved bullion cube, but still hits the spot when craved.

I have to be careful when I do this all, I really hate getting lectured on why it's a gross/nasty/weird habit from my family.

BTW, the blood pressure is fine for me. No worries there! *whew*

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I would heat up a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup and only add about 1/4 of the water the instructions called for. Canned soup just wasnt salty enough for me. I'd have to eat it with crushed Ruffle's potatoe chips floating on top.

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Top Ramen - cooked with very little water, seasoning packet (or two, if feeling extravagant) and then boiled / simmered until there's no liquid left and the noodles are all melty.

Need several glasses of water for this one.

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It's so good to know that I'm not the only person who sips Worcestshire sauce! I also love spicy things, so I sometimes mix it with Tabasco sauce.
I also love sauerkraut. Nothing beats some freshly made sauerkraut for a quick (and oddly refreshing) snack.

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Not Worcestershire sauce, but soy sauce. There's a family story about me taking a big swig out of a soy sauce bottle when I was about 2, bracing like someone who has just downed a shot of whisky, and then grinning and proclaiming "I LIKE soy soyce!"

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i don't get salt cravings too often, but when i do there are definitely specific foods i need to eat to satisfy it:

bacon
popcorn
salt & vinegar potato chips
tamari sauce
sour pickles [Guss' or Ba-Tampte]
sauerkraut
pickled beets

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I typically use very little salt on most items, however I do like to eat rare roast beef, or some cold leftover rare prime steak in the morning with a salt skaker in one hand, and thin slices of the rare meat in the other, liberally sprinkling the salt on the tasty meat.... something about cold red beef, and salt that gets my taste buds popping.

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Ume - one or two with hot gohan is a good meal.

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Plain salt. Anything with salt on it. Seasoning salts, like the kind on the table at Red Robin (the best thing in the restaurant, if you ask me).

When I was a teenager, my father (a doctor himself) took me to a nutrition focused doctor and said "tell her how bad eating straight salt, etc. is for her" The doctor examined me and said, nope. She's got low blood pressure, and as long as you don't already have high blood pressure, you'll do absolutely no damage to yourself eating enormous quantities of salt.

Thank god. In the ten years or so since then I don't think I've slowed down a bit. In college some friends gave me a salt lick for my birthday (the kind they give cows) as a joke...They actually have all kinds of minerals in them, so I didn't actually get to eat it.

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Ah yes, I love the salty tomato juice. My drink of choice on airplanes. 

I was playing a lot of soccer for a while this summer and must've been really low on salt. Twice, I got this inexplicable, burning desire for kimchi and ended up buying a jar and eating the entire thing, straight. Hopefully, I don't intend to do that, again. It gave me heart palpitations and probably exceeded the daily recommended dosage of sodium by several hundred times! 

I am also a confessed canned fish brine drinker. Not salmon for me, but tuna. My dog only gets "tuna juice" from the salt free cans.

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Ruffles potato chips with french onion dip. Yum!

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I am a dessert junkie, so my ultimate salty treat is chocolate tortilla chips made by Food Should Taste Good. I love all their chips, even though I'm usually not much of a chip person, but I could eat a whole bag of the chocolate ones. http://www.foodshouldtastegood.com/portfolio.asp

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Matjes herring--with raw spanish onions.-- Salty and sour and sweet. A unique taste and flavour that will leave your mouth numb for hours. Warning: Not to be eaten if you plan to make love within the following eight hours or so. But then again, you won't need to make love; you'll be too happy and blissed-out to even think of making love and you'll sleep like a baby.

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Here's a few more suggestions:
(1) Anchovies and/or anchovy paste.
(2) Full sour kosher dill pickles-if you're really desperate, sip some of the brine from the pickle bottle.
(3) This last choice is one that Canadian urban winter drivers will appreciate: Try sucking on the back of the cuff of your trousers after a lot of driving in snowy weather.

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Any sort of fried potato is my favorite salt-delivery system. 

Beef also calls out for salt. Roast beef and steaks, especially. 

I also love fish sauce!

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Sea salt sprinkled (very liberally!) on granny smith apples! Wonderful!!!

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Guilty as charged. Right now, mine would probably be salted peanuts in the shell. After finishing off a bowl of the things, I'll start sucking on the shells.

...Can't be any weirder than some of the other stuff here, right?

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I drink the leftover tempura dipping sauce, and sometimes soy sauce.
I suck the salt off of stick pretzels, eating only maybe 1 out of every 4-5.
sometimes I just lick my finger and dip it lightly into my salt cellar. 
Potatoes are a vehicle for condiments, salt is a condiment :)
Popcorn - truffle oil cut with butter, fresh micro-planed parm with salt - YUM
Split pea soup has to have extra salt added.
Celery sticks dipped in PB sprinkled with salt.
I think that's enough for now. :)

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This thread is reassuring me that i'm not alone and not a complete freak.. :)

crunching on perfect pyramid crystals of Maldon Sea Salt is something i do quite regularly.

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How about those smoked herring you get at the supermarket? I don't thimk you can find anything saltier. I remember when bars sold a packet of 3 or 4 smoked herring Under the brand of "Blind Robins"

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I love salt and vinegar potato chips! I can't get enough of them.

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Salt bagels, beef jerky, and EXTRA EXTRA crispy french fries covered in salt

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I love lighty salted sunflower seeds, kosher salt on soft warm pretzels, A definate would be.....salt on a margarita glass!!, french fries, salt & vinegar Chips, fish & chips w/ extra Salt!!, actually....add salt to anything fried!!, baked potato, freshly sliced tomatoes and (or) radishes, sprinkle salt in tap beer with a splash of tomato juice, .........It's an enhanser...hello!!! Watermelon...any melon for that matter. Gotta go find salt...now........

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Ohh Salt is just about my favourite thing, and my SO constantly reminds me what a bad habit it is *sigh*

I LOVE mixing yogurt with water (creating a nice creamy drink) and adding lots of salt to it. 
Sipping pickle juice out of the jar, vinegary, salty and refreshing. 
I love salted sunflower seeds, but the next day I suffer with my lips all shriveled or "mummified" 
When I was little I learned some terrible habbits of eating things like green almonds, rhubarb, cucumbers, green unripe plums dipped in heaps of salt (it's a middle eastern thing) 

I like lebnah with a lot of salt too, sometimes it just doesn't feel like enough salt!!!!!
My SO's mother commented on how the salt in the several containers around the household keep decreasing, and never in her life she had to buy so much salt!

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I salt deli swiss cheese slices.

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I'll fifth the Maldon. Great taste plus the crystals are the coolest shapes.

For my salt fix, I like provolone stuffed green olives from Fresh Market. I add extra Italian seasoning when I get home, if they make it that far.

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I am also a former boullion licker(who knew there were so many of us). My grandmother used to always have them in her kitchen and always indulged me...go figure. My favorites are soft pretzels, cool ranch Doritos, Combos, Bojangles fries w/extra seasoning salt, fried okra with a generous sprinkling of salt, popcorn w/lots of butter and salt

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Favorite salty pleasure...kikkoman soy sauce on potato bread...delicious! Lentil soup with boat loads of salt. Cheese Pizza with hot sauce and loads of garlic salt. Soft pretzels and kosher salt plus french's yellow mustard.... pickle juice out of the jar

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I've always had a heavy hand on the salt, and after getting Addison's Disease, I crave it! Not one, but two kinds of sea salt reside in my apt kitchen, as does a bottle of Lee Kum Kee soy sauce. V-8 juice with salt and white basalmic vinegar! Fleur de sel caramels! Yeah!

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Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips
Lemons
Bloody's
Apples
Melon
Potatos--mashed, baked, boiled, fried--they all MUST have salt
Cold salted Buttermilk & saltine crackers--Oh my!
Margaritas
Grapefruit
pasta
beef

yeah..I'm a saltaholic. keep a stash of kosher salt in my desk drawer at work.

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I used to salt all of my food very heavily, but I think that's because I ate a lot of very poorly prepared food until I was well into adulthood. I now rarely salt any type of prepared dish, and find that I'm hypersensitive to any dish that is saltier than it should be. Having said that I am still a die hard salt-aholic, and there are certain things I just can't eat without salt (tomatoes, edemame, grapefruit, celery cucumbers, etc), things I still love with salt but unfortunately can't eat at all (radishes and green onions give me the worst heartburn - I used to eat them dipped in salt as snacks when I was a kid), and other salty foods that I love (olives, anchovies, potato chips, pickles).

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is Oysters Rockefeller which are traditionally served on a bed of rock salt. Yes, I love the oysters but it's also a treat to sneak a few sucks of the rock salt.

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Spam marinated in soy sauce and baked in a rock salt crust.

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It would have to involve margaritas and beach.

But short of that, drinking the olive juice from canned black olives. Pouring salt on popcorn in long, long spirals, drinking soy sauce shots (none of the light stuff) or whatever soy+x tasty sauce is served. Salt on dinner bread with a squeeze of lemon, in place of butter.

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Cold salted butter pats on light toast, bagel, muffin. I like the contrast in taste and temp.

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I have just realized I too have a salt fetish!

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If you like Worcestershire sauce that much, try slicing and marinating tomatoes in it.
After you eat the tomatoes, my son and I fight for the leftover liquid of Worcestershire sauce and tomato seeds and juice.

We also fight over pickle juice. Ever since he found out how deliciously salty pickle juice is, I keep finding jars of pickles in the fridge with suspiciously little pickling liquid in with the actual pickles.

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