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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 86 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.

Science. πŸ’™

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sodium reacts violently in water
Chlorine was used in mustard gas
Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty (yuckyCat.jpg)

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

swim in it all day

If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't we taste more like pork?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only time I taste the human flesh is when I nervously bite my cheek so it starts to have fibroma which I try to gnaw off. Nah, tastes more like clam

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

You are taking about water with salt. The question about submerging in a pool full of just salt.

[–] theluckyone@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago

I was in the pool!

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone -1 points 1 month ago
[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 13 points 1 month ago

β€œminimal”

Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you eat salt all day its going to have some quite serious health effects. Traces of it are tasty but that is about the limit.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast...

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for bionic kidneys to be an option that allow drinking sea water