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.

It doesn't go off or anything but it's often difficult to keep salt in its original condition over a long period, especially in a kitchen where temperature and humidity fluctuates, so it's fair to say it's 'at its best' before a certain date. Ours always needs to last way longer than the date as we don't use it much, so we've found it's best to keep it on top of the radiator so it doesn't get too cold or damp

Well I would never refer to that container as a bottle. That seems weird to me.
I don't use that kind of salt when I'm cooking; I buy fine sea salt for cooking (looks just like that kind of salt) and that comes in a cardboard drum. As a condiment I use sea salt flakes or rock salt chunks and put them in a grinder. They often come in boxes. I also like trying flavoured salts (lemon, garlic, seaweed etc) and they tend to come in little tubs. Salt for sprinkling by my back door when it's icy, I buy 1kg bags and decant into a plastic box.
Not a "bottle" for any situation.

Fair enough. It’s just an expression I genuinely have never heard before. I’d probably have called that a tub of salt?

Never had to use that much but if you sprinkle salt on your sink and use a cut I. Half lemon to spread it around it acts as a scrub and looks and smells fab!!

I stock up on it and keep them in the cupboard so I rarely run out of salt. Only have to order it once a year or so.

Killing weeds

Like a PP, my immediate thought was slugs!

It’s too tall to be a tub. It is shaped like a bottle. It has a pouring spout. The shop calls it a bottle.

Clearly panic buying because the Daily.... has issued a cold weather warning and they are now getting ready to de-ice the front steps.

I thought this was about to be a thread about the obscene amount of salt I used on a recent holiday to keep the slugs away... thought I'd swept it all up...

Oh, have they moved on to the 'beast from the east to hit Brrrritain' front pages?

The foodbank doesn't want two massive tubs of salt and some perishable snacks 😂

I don’t sneak into people’s gardens at night and eat their plants.

Slugs deserve everything they get.

Butter maybe on a 2 for 1 and they are making playdoh

What a very nonsensical comment.
Still, as expected from those with a lukewarm IQ who favour their plants over an ecosystem and kill anything inconvenient to them.
The hedgehog population is dwindling. Habitat loss and lack of food such as slugs. People like you and the cretin I quoted don’t give a shit though, eh?

I always get a extra butter - well margarine.
Anchor butter here it $8.70 its luxury.
Salt for playdough?