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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 22/6/2013
Quote: Originally posted by Surfer01 on 22/6/2013If we had to avoid all the baddies in food, we would probably starve to death. BTW at one time salt was a very valuable commodity, used for bartering and quite expensive.
Roman soldiers were paid in salt...it was known as salarium which gives us salary and being "worth one's salt"
But that was in the days before monosodium glutamate
So roman soldiers were paid with salt, maybe they needed it for all those roman roads in winter
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