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16981118 No.16981118 [Reply] [Original]

How the fuck did people eat food before salt was invented? Serious question?

>> No.16981120

>>16981118
> Salt
> Invented

>> No.16981121

With their ass

>> No.16981123

Picky eaters died and were not mourned.

>> No.16981126

>>16981118
Other animals don't salt their food, anon.

You've become accustomed to modern amenities.

>> No.16981127

Are you retarded? Salt was not invented it's a mineral.

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>>16981127
>Are you retarded?
They posted here. Do you have to ask?

>> No.16981140

my dad got bypass and I'm supposed to make zero-low sodium dinners for him. it is actually insane how fucking difficult and bad food is without salt.
no sugar no problem, things naturally have sugar in them and it's enough if you bring it out like onions or smoked meats.
he pretty much told me he'd rather just die than continue the saltless diet, i understand and agree, i want the same

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>>16981127
What you're saying is that people mined salt blocks off like some cobblestone in minecraft? Kek you trippin

>> No.16981178

more sensitive palate
more herbs
survival

>> No.16981182

>>16981140
that sucks... is that how he has to live for the rest of his life? why does he have to eat low-sodium if he got a bypass`?

>> No.16981192

>>16981118
They probably didn’t treat eating as this fun activity, the way people do now. More like a chore. Not everything needs salt to taste good though

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>>16981192
>Not everything needs salt to taste good though
name examples pls

>> No.16981206

>>16981198
Fruits. And some nuts taste decent unsalted

>> No.16981263

>>16981182
more or less yeah the grafted arteries from bypass are still if susceptible to high blood pressure which salt causes. it's just a recommendation to maximize time alive though, most people trade a couple extra years of existence for good food though - he is and I would

>> No.16981287

>>16981118
If salt is not necessary, then why salty is one of the four flavor the tongue can detect.

>> No.16981387

>>16981118

Raw meat and raw vegetables. Fyi humans have been found using salt for over 5000 years.

>> No.16981398

>>16981147
they got it from animal blood, small fish, all kinds of natural sources

>> No.16981402

>>16981398
example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz8FlSKJ2JE

>> No.16981409

>>16981118
It's likely that we've evolved to prefer salty and acidic food because that's how early civilizations preserved food.

>> No.16981416

>>16981409
no, it's the other way around? acidic is closely related with sweetness in nature, acidic foods are extremely likely to be calorically dense. we discovered pickling cause we wanted to eat acidic stuff.
salting is necessary for our nervous system to work, we like salt cause it's one of the most crucial minerals for any mammal.

>> No.16981425

we invented food after salt

>> No.16981431

>>16981118
Invented? Salt is literally laying around on the ground and in the water, anon.

Before production improved salt was worth its weight in gold.

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16981441

Just don't be fat and cut out the meat and oil from your diet and keep using salt. Take the McDougall pill and eat delicious foods.

>> No.16981512

>>16981118
They had bigger issues than making good food

>> No.16981526

>>16981126
>saltlick
Other animals use salt.

>> No.16981527

My guess is fish juice and honey.

>> No.16981529

>>16981120
>he doesn't know about John E. Salt

>> No.16981588

>>16981140
Surely it's fine if you're not going over whatever the recommended amount, right? It's easy to keep sodium levels low when you're in control of the salt. There's also that potassium stuff, and potassium is suppose to help control salt levels. I'd also take some celery seed and hawthorn berry supplements along with the meals.

>> No.16981653

>>16981118
salt was invented by the universe billions of years before this planet existed, you complete fuckwit.
What people were around then, eh?
How would intelligent life develop before salt molecules did, eh?

>> No.16981664

>>16981140
Try to use liquid salt, high animal fats, and heavy garlic.

>> No.16981716

>>16981140
Use more acidity. Vinegar, lemon, yogurt, etc. I didn't miss the salt as much when I started using more of that stuff.

>> No.16981759

>>16981529
Kek

>> No.16982059

>>16981526
They don't sprinkle it on the grass they eat for flavor

>> No.16982070

>>16982059
And humans used to get their salt intake from a meat heavy near carnivorous diet.

>> No.16982081

>>16982059
monkeys dunk tubers in saltwater for taste

>> No.16982097

>>16981147
In some instances yeah. Kingdoms that controlled a large salt deposit typically ended up very powerful and wealthy since salt was pretty much the preservative method along with smoking

>> No.16982105

>>16981287
I mean bitter is usually to tell us something is poisonous. But the flavor of salt is desirable and is needed in small quantities to live

>> No.16982125

>>16981664
There used to be this local company that sold a lower sodium liquid salt made from the mineral salt of the great salt lake. That shit was so good, the extra dissolved minerals in it actually added a lot to the flavor. Was worth the cyanide, now we just get to breath in the cyanide since the great salt lake is more or less a salty dust plain with wandering wolverines now.

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>>16981126
These lil niggas literally climb vertical walls to lick salt off of the rocks

>> No.16982181

>>16981121
this

>> No.16982447

>>16981140
your dad is fine eating salt. he probably had a heart attack because he's obese, not because of sodium. koreans eat like 5g of salt per day.

>> No.16982477

>>16982167
Me in the 14th century

>> No.16982481

>>16982447
Funnily enough Koreans do get health complications due to their salt intake, but heart or clot problems are not the problems.

>> No.16982508

>>16981206
Wait til you try these salty nuts
*zzzzzip*

>> No.16982552

>>16981118
oprah is a tranny pedophile

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>>16982167
Did you know about them before, or after reading killing bites?

>> No.16982771

>>16981140
I fucking love salt I'd kill myself if I had to have none too

>> No.16984104

>>16981118
They dipped it in ash. Adds some saltiness.

>> No.16984148 [DELETED] 

this thread looks like a nigger thread

>> No.16984157

>>16981120
at some point in history someone said, i'm gonna lick this rock

>> No.16984159

>>16981118
>how did people eat food before cooking was invented
>how did people eat food before farming and selecting for preferable genetics was discovered
>how did people eat food before herbs and spices
>how did people eat food before the oven was invented

ever tried a dog biscuit? same way, we didnt know any better, and the picky wouldnt survive

>> No.16985526

>>16981140
Get potassium chloride. Works like salt.