Sunday, November 2, 2008
Ch 4
In this chapter I realized how serious everyone was about their salt prices. It definitely reminds me of today's gas prices. Its always the talk of the town and someone is always complaining about it. Also, people traveled a long way just to get there salt. I can buy salt within five miles of my house. I never really considered that people would have special trails like "Salt Road" dedicated to trading salt. I guess salt sure has come a long way. Its pretty cool that they had "salad" or whatever, but I would say its quite different from today's salad. I dont think I've ever put salt on my salad, and I dont think I know anyone who puts it on theirs either. If I've been eating presalted salad all these years without knowing it, I'll be a little upset. Can you be allergic to salt? That would really suck. I hate green olives, so I think that whoever decided to salt them so that they could be edible is an awful person. My family has been trying to get me to like them for as long as I can remember. I don't like them and I never will. Garum, seriously? Why would anyone ever ever ever in a million years eat that? If the smells not enough to get you, the fact that its actually rotten fish should ring a bell in your head that maybe its not the greatest tasting stuff in the world. The guy that finally banned it from all recipes was a genius. I would probably never eat it if I lived back then. Its made in a completely disgusting way, and I don't even like fresh fish, let alone rotten fish.
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There's a lot of students who made this same connection. (salt was like today's gas) which I think is kind of neat. Yes, there was a sort of trade monopoly going on there for a while. Neat point.
We will study the salt road later next semester when we look at China.
YOU WROTE:
"Can you be allergic to salt?" This is a VERY good question. I don't think I ever thought of it before? I used to have a friend in college who was allergic to iodine. As today's table salt has iodine (for anti-bacteria reasons) in it, he was never able to eat much. I'll have to ask the Science dept.
I hate olives too, so I can relate. Garum, aka fish paste just sounds disgusting, but this summer when we go to Pompee, you will see giant clay vats where they used to stew/ferment it. It was really popular back then, as a spread to put on toast or bread. I think I would pass.
Nice comments,
Mr. Farrell
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