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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Except that salt negates bitter flavors. So if you have a bitter pill to swallow, you take it with a grain of salt and it isn't as bad.

Thiel is involved in shit so bitter that it would take an ocean's worth of salt to swallow.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You definitely lost the metaphor here. Salt does not negate or in any way cover bitter flavors.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You obviously don't know how salt works.

https://www.nature.com/articles/42388

Besides, the actual origin of "take with a grain of salt" comes from Pliny the Elder, who believed salt to be part of a cure for poison.

His actual words were "addito salis grano" or add a grain of salt.

He believed this because salt suppresses bitter flavors and most poisonous things taste fairly bitter.

The phase "cum grano salis" or with a grain of salt, then entered latin, and eventually a few other languages.