2 Bottles of Salt! Why?

[JustPassingThyme]

Ordered a little grocery delivery via an app. I wasn't feeling well and needed a few bits. Opened the bag to find completely the wrong order. There clearly was a mix up where I got someone else's shop, and they got mine. So I was able to get a full refund thankfully, and was told to keep the wrong shop.

Went through the free shop, there were pretty typical items, not what I wanted, but can use:

• 4l of semi skimmed milk
• loaf of seeded bread (nice bread)
• 2 packs of sliced chicken
• 3 packets of fridge raiders
• 3 packets of mini chocolate oranges
• 2 large packs of anchor spreadable butter?
• 2 large bottles of salt????

I'm sure whoever got my shop is equally disappointed about the wraps, mayonnaise, egg custard tarts and 2 cartons of cranberry juice I ordered.

I consider the delivery shops to be a sort of emergency top up interim type shop. What kind of emergency requires 2 packs of butter and 2 bottles of salt? 1 pack of butter, sure, 1 bottle of salt, ok? But 2? It's the salt that really puzzles me. Why so much salt? What do you get in an emergency mini shop?

Anyway I'm going to try fridge raiders for the first time in years, I seem to recall they are as dry as old socks.

killing weeds or making playdough

what actual glass or plastic bottles? genuinely never seen it.

They do sell bags of salt but not value range.

This recyclable bottle is handier though, no decanting required.

Plastic. You’ve never seen table salt?

Salt dough. I use about a bottle a week in the first term of school (after that, we use less play dough). I live near all the 24 hour shops, so don't use delivery apps but have definitely been out at 11 pm panic buying salt before.

I buy large bottles of salt to add to horse feed.

I’ve seen lots of stuff on instagram suggesting soaking feet in salt water or standing on piles of salt in the shower to sort out summer feet (dry, peeling horrible heels etc)

Nobody is doing deliveroo type deliveries for a normal grocery shop, which is clearly what the OP meant. It's usually for things you need right now. The mark ups are insane.

I consider the delivery shops to be a sort of emergency top up interim type shop. What kind of emergency requires 2 packs of butter and 2 bottles of salt?

You're assuming that the other person also considers delivery shops to be an emergency top up. But maybe this is how they always order. Perhaps they have no car, are infirm or elderly, or disabled? It's not necessarily an emergency shop for them.

Cross posted with @AbsintheMakesTheHeartGrowFonder

Oooh, salt. Well, this may not apply but I spent time with relatives and their son and his girlfriend. Fit-looking young things. Both Sandhurst graduates. After a nice Sunday lunch and a stroll to watch leaping salmon, we all went home and us oldies had tea and biscuits. The young ones went off for an 8 km run. (3 times up and down a 45 deg slope path.)

Later that evening, over dinner, I watched, stunned, as they tipped salt over and over again onto their plates and just ate it. His mother said that's what the army advises for peeps doing serious exercise, especially in hot climates. (Which was, frankly, not where we were.) Might be an explanation?

Making play dough?

If you're cooking with it, the posh salt is a waste of money because it dissolves into the same ions as the basic salt the OP is talking about, which has lots of uses.

We use that kind for cooking as well as sprinkling on the path when it's icy, but we do also have posh flavoured salt flakes from Lanzarote for sprinkling on tomato bread etc.

It can come in boxes/packets - like icing sugar.

I know because we had to get more salt for fabric dying and that was all local corner shop had - basic salt in a half the icing sugar sized packet.

You can also buy it in big plastic bags - think we sometime get those massive ones with asda which we usually then decant into the plastic bottle - or on-line when I bulk buying for drive though that was old salt ie out of best before but still okay for weeds.

Cheap table salt in cooled boiled water is great for cleaning infected wounds and soaking feet in if you have a fungal nail infection.

Drain unblocking, crafts eg salt dough or tie dye, slugs.

Did you have the fridge raiders? They are awful soggy, strange textured, cardboard.

And clearly the salt is to stop the fairies from trying to wreck the place

That was my immediate thought.

I did have one pack, I will not be eating the other two. The texture is so odd, and the flavour is artificial, and dare I say it salty. I think my sister will take them off my hands.

Unfortunately the terrys chocolate orange minis weren't nice either, really waxy? Such a shame they are a Christmas favourite of mine. I am being forced to be healthy, because all the unhealthy food tastes disgusting now!

I get through an entire large bottle of salt when my four kids need their homemade play doh made up! Could be a nursery teacher getting supplies ready as they also make their own dough.

I read that as well

oh...do you mean a drum?

I've remembered something else you can use salt for

https://youtube.com/shorts/YwNOkF94Qu0?is=AT7TjTnUISdRput_

Do you live near the coast?

I've just bought 1.5kg salt in a plastic bag, for my fabric dyeing efforts. By coincidence I also bought sea salt to top up the grinder. In fact I wondered if Google had already detected it and rushed home before me to bring this thread to the top as I clearly have a salt fixation.

I bought a big bag of salt to use on the weeds growing through my paving.