On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:19:49 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 9:10:47 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2019-02-23 1:09 p.m., Pamela wrote:
>> > On 18:05 23 Feb 2019, Gary > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Oddly enough, the saltines I bought today said "sea salt". Plain old
>> >>> Premium saltines.
>> >>
>> >> Think about it though, Cindy. This is where Premium is probably
>> >> trying to trick us only because the "trending salt" these days is
>> >> sea salt. People now spend more for sea salt and they feel
>> >> superior. It's just a marketing ploy. All salt is sea salt, only
>> >> difference is where it came from and how long ago it formed.
>> >>
>> >> Personally, I prefer the mined ancient sea salt, now just called
>> >> salt. The ocean was much more pure when that salt formed in
>> >> ancient and long gone oceans.
>> >
>> > Not forgetting pink Himalayan salt. Heh!
>>
>> The Himalayas were not always mountains. The mountains are there now
>> because plates of rock were forced up upward, exposing layers of rock
>> and minerals that had been buried. Besides, Himalayan salt is not from
>> the Himalayas. It is from the Salt range in Punjab.
>> >
>
>The appeal of seasoning your food with fossil salt 600 to 800 million years old is undeniable. Unfortunately, having to bite down on crushed rocky material pretty much killed that idea for me.

Piggybacking here.

The Punjab is in the Himalayas, Western Himalayas.

JB