Welp straight to the bin

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s actually the expiration date of the plastic container.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wish it were the expiration date for Earth.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I kinda like Earth.
      It’s the only planet that has kittens.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We tried, but we’re running a bit late.

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lmao, the ultimate edgelord over here.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s close.

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• MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you dump it on your garden it’ll make your vegetables salty so that when you eat them you don’t have to add seasoning. The more salt you put the better the plants will do. My grandpa Ahmed used to tell me about that trick when I was a kid and his yard was the most wonderful desert.

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  • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s what plants crave.

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  • bibbasa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it has elecrolytes

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    • MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve got electric lights in my house too but you don’t see me giving them to plants do you?

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• fitjazz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I used to have a pre-filled salt grinder that said “freshly ground for fresher taste”. I always thought “you don’t understand how rocks work” whenever I would read it.

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  • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Surface area is a thing. You can use differently grounds salt for different effects.

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure, but that has nothing to do with being freshly ground. You can buy different grinds of salt.

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The surface of the salt grains reacts with what is in the air (moisture, smells), slowly changing the surface over time, and since it’s that surface that touches our taste buts most, the taste of the salt will be different.

    Salts are also often not pure sodium, but have added elements that give it a distinct taste and aroma. That original taste/aroma will be lost over time, because aroma = smell = particles flying away in the air. Long exposure to a strong smell will also cause the salt to acquire that different smell as part of it’s new aroma.

    Starting from larger grains and grinding them shortly before usage, would thus give salt that smells and tastes more like it’s fresh from the salt factory. But I do wonder how many people would be able to tell the difference in a blind test.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah. Works for pepper not for salt.

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only advantage is having no anticaking agents

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s like a bottle of water and the expiration is for the plastic

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• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wonder if that’s because of the microplastic contamination more than the actual salt lol

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• frog@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Best by != Expiration

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yup. When it expires, its done for. When it’s past the best by date, it just means it’s best days are over. Much like my own.

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• SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  my 250 million year old salt has expired

  laughing in Martian

  Yup, that’s Earth alright. Rookie numbers, as usual.

  well‐preserved, clay and carbonate‐bearing sedimentary fan deposit located on the western edge of the crater

  This fan is estimated to have formed approximately 3.2–3.8 billion years ago when ancient streams flowed into the Jezero crater lake

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where i can buy 249 million years old salt?

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• YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Best before the Rise of the Machines.”

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Could be sleeping in chemicals from the plastic.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And yet somehow the billions-years-old atoms in your body encode a 35 year old, and then a 78 year old, then …

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