had to exit recently BU podcast
oh my god i was listening to the most recent unfiltered podcast and around minute 29 they started talking about salaries and how the word salary comes from salt, and then zane and remi somehow went on this whole tangent about how they couldn’t understand why salt would’ve been valuable back then other than like… good luck making food taste good without it.
and then they started talking about sugar on the same basis and i was actually losing my mind.
like i’m genuinely so confused how you get this far in life with absolutely no general knowledge whatsoever because wasn’t this something we all learned when we were like 10??? salt was insanely valuable because they DIDN’T HAVE REFRIGERATORS. it was one of the main ways of preserving meat and fish so food wouldn’t literally rot. not because people back then were worried about their food tasting bland 😭
like what do you think they were cooking that they desperately needed salt for flavor??? that was obviously not the point.
and i know the whole “roman soldiers were literally paid in salt” thing is apparently a bit more complicated historically, but salt being incredibly valuable because of food preservation is such basic general knowledge that i genuinely couldn’t keep listening.
i had to exit the podcast.