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Can I lick it? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 84 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.

Science. 💙

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    swim in it all day

    If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    (Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't we taste more like pork?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you eat salt all day its going to have some quite serious health effects. Traces of it are tasty but that is about the limit.

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