Alot of people don’t think about salt.
Salt is cheaper than dirt right now.
But in the past, alot of people worked their backsides off and sweated and toiled and then got paid. They got paid in SALt. Which was SALine.
That’s where we even get the word SALary.
A guy could put 100 lbs of SALt up for like what, maybe 20 bucks?
Costco has 50# buckets of salt for $37. If someone does buy one or these buckets, I’d recommend splitting the salt into smaller containers and then resealing them. This would give it a much longer shelf life.
You are right about salt and spices, they were very expensive and hard to come by in the olden days.
Agreed, I have thought a lot about Salt. Pepper was once valuable too. Pepper could make nearly spoiled meat taste palatable. The main historical reasons that spices were so much was for the cost of transportation (everything by camel, mule, horse, or by walking). Still if it comes to that, while I don’t think we’ll see a huge increase in prices like millenia ago, I suspect it will be quite costly.
Just a P.S. if you’re ever stuck in the wild, surviving, my understanding is that eyeballs (from deer, etc.) are a good choice to get salt, or so I saw on a military survival training video.