On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:58:07 GMT, Pamela >
wrote:

>On 13:16 26 Feb 2019, JBurns > wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>Himalayan salt is said to be formed from sea salt a long time ago.

well sure but do you think the sea water was pink way back then?

Pink oceans would have been spectacular

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