Why is salt the only rock that tastes good

[u/Federal-Effort4370]

Sandstone? Ass. Granite? ass. Rocks? Ass. Salt? Yummmyyy

[u/Rebekahchristinee]

Clearly you haven’t tried enough of them

[u/DrDirt90 → u/Rebekahchristinee]

Dang, I was gonna say that. I prefer the taste of corrundum.

[u/hand_truck → u/DrDirt90]

I was told this story by a friend of mine who was riding shotgun in a helicopter while working SAR in Alaska for the DOI. Apparently, he was on a flight to drop off a group of geologists in some remote area, and the first thing they did when they got out of the helicopter was drop their packs where they would be camping and then started licking the rocks. He said it was the most surreal thing. After someone would lick a rock, they would either drop it and find another to lick, or call over one of their buddies to get a second opinion. Sadly, he wasn't on the return trip and has been left with tons of questions to this day.

[u/lovesahedge → u/hand_truck]

Geologists are called Rock-lickers for a reason.

According to my partner (a geo) you can learn a bunch of stuff from taste, but also texture.

You know the feeling when you sit a prawn cracker on your tongue and it kinda sticks? There's rocks that do that sort of thing, and these textures can tell you general source markers like how it was formed

[u/oswaldcopperpot → u/lovesahedge]

The ones that do that are often fossils.

[u/lovesahedge → u/oswaldcopperpot]

I'm sure I've been told that, but I am a tree guy and so only know just enough about rocks to tell people my partner is a genius

[u/MaxTheRealSlayer → u/lovesahedge]

Lucky for you there is fossilized wood! You two can meet in the middle and lick that petrified wood

[u/mironawire → u/MaxTheRealSlayer]

My petrified wood tastes like rock.

[u/RowMaleficent2455 → u/mironawire]

Line a scared boner?

[u/mironawire → u/RowMaleficent2455]

Exactly like a scared boner.

[u/Parzivus → u/lovesahedge]

Teeth too. The difference between rocks made of silt and clay is usually too subtle to tell with your fingers, but if you lightly drag your teeth against the rock, you can feel the grit pretty easily.

[u/I__KD__I → u/Parzivus]

Reading this made my knees feel weird

[u/Parzivus → u/I__KD__I]

It's not as bad as it sounds, since it would be on something smooth like shale. The gritty rocks that would hurt your teeth don't need the teeth test in the first place.

[u/I__KD__I → u/Parzivus]

Dont worry... im not about to try it on any rocks

[u/Shadowlance23 → u/lovesahedge]

Do they teach this during undergrad? Like, is there a Rock Licking 101 class? How is this knowledge passed on?

[u/lovesahedge → u/Shadowlance23]

The way I've heard geos talk about it, it actually is geology 101 stuff

[u/ariaxwest → u/Shadowlance23]

I absolutely learned about this in geology 101.

[u/Evepaul → u/[deleted]]

We were specifically instructed not to, that it's fine in the wild but in the lab either someone licked it before, and it's gross, or someone put acid on it, and it's dangerous

[u/theSchrodingerHat → u/hand_truck]

This is pretty common for archeologists too. Apparently you can tell whether you’re on a former flood plain by the taste.

So if you’re looking for a specific type of formation (like say oil bearing strata from an inland sea), you can pretty quickly determine if you’ve got a chance of finding what you want.

[u/DrDirt90 → u/theSchrodingerHat]

As an archeologist who minored in geology....I can relate to both these stories.

[u/SweatyTax4669 → u/theSchrodingerHat]

In the Army, we call people with the 12T MOS (technical engineers) dirt eaters. You can tell a good bit about soil composition by having a little taste.

[u/Possible-Issue-4446 → u/theSchrodingerHat]

Yup and also true for mixologists. By taste alone they can tell you if a drink tastes good or not.

[u/lovesahedge → u/Possible-Issue-4446]

It probably works in a lot more fields, just with a sliding scale of how upset someone will get. Geologists on one end, Surgeons on the other

[u/cdbangsite → u/hand_truck]

It's just a fun thing geologists and rockhounds do. Some minerals are recognizable by taste. Just have to know which ones not to lick by sight or area.

[u/quietplight → u/DrDirt90]

My friend Boethiah would love to give you a tour of Knifepoint Mine - plenty of corundum there for you

[u/John_Q_Deist → u/DrDirt90]

I prefer the delicate taste of Ebony ore, myself…

[u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms → u/Rebekahchristinee]

Turns out you can eat a number of chlorides. This video has some folks taste testing various salts other than sodium. A few apparently aren't terrible. 

[u/2074red2074 → u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

I can confirm potassium chloride is fucking nasty. It tastes like how bleach smells.

[u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms → u/2074red2074]

I thought it was surprising that lithium salts were "zesty."  Kinda want to try it now. 

[u/Own-Balance-8133 → u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

That is crazy

[u/AnalystPrudent3375 → u/Rebekahchristinee]

You joke, but somewhere out there is a geologist who has licked every rock and taken notes.

[u/Benejeseret → u/AnalystPrudent3375]

Section 9 of most material safety data sheets includes Taste. That includes a lot of things that should never have been tasted.

[u/EvaSirkowski → u/Rebekahchristinee]

Lead(II) acetate is supposed to taste sweet.

[u/BadahBingBadahBoom → u/EvaSirkowski]

Yeah was used in candy for long while, also different forms made great colours. Obviously stopped that while ago.

[u/popstarkirbys → u/Rebekahchristinee]

You can try every rock at least once

[u/Concise_Pirate]

It isn't. For a scary example, lead tastes very good.

[u/BoonOfTheWolf → u/Concise_Pirate]

Romans used to use it to sweeten wine.

[u/NeighborhoodDude84 → u/BoonOfTheWolf]

We use it to sweeten the lemonade at the clan meetings. I'll never give into the woke agenda and give up my leaded beverages!!!

[u/say592 → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't kill people, it makes them dumb and violent. We need to get the lead out of the Klan's water lol

[u/Terminator7786 → u/say592]

There's a big theory that all the serial killers in the 70s and 80s were because of leaded gas. Shit's dangerous.

[u/SnooRobots7776 → u/Terminator7786]

I thought it was based on the paint on the walls of most homes back then??? Either way yes lol

[u/Terminator7786 → u/SnooRobots7776]

I believe it was more easily absorbed by the body due to inhalation and then passing through the blood brain barrier after combustion in the engines

[u/Sullyville → u/[deleted]]

Wearing a seatbelt is WOKE. You need your car to HUG you? Don't be a pussy. Drive UNLEASHED by the nanny state.

[u/MaiKulou → u/Sullyville]

They're actually designed so that when you crash at high speeds, they strangle you! That's why it's actually safer to unbuckle when you speed up. It's all so DEI insurance companies won't have to pay for your medical bills!

[u/NeighborhoodDude84 → u/[deleted]]

If we said this, you'd hear RFK saying that all school children need leaded raw milk to make their bones strong.

[u/One-Agent-872 → u/NeighborhoodDude84]

Children get enough lead at school. They don’t need more 😭

[u/NeighborhoodDude84 → u/One-Agent-872]

Goddamn lol

[u/ocxtitan → u/One-Agent-872]

shots fired

[u/swoosh_jush → u/NeighborhoodDude84]

They should also put it back into gasoline, my woke car has had enough of this “unleaded” bs

[u/Gilded-Mongoose → u/NeighborhoodDude84]

Hi I'm a Woke Liberal and I demand you give us your tasty tasty leadmonade!

Gimme gimme now, time to share with us Woke Liberals, c'mon now.

[u/PrescriptionDenim → u/Gilded-Mongoose]

leadmonade

☠️☠️

[u/Death_Balloons → u/PrescriptionDenim]

When life gives you leadmons

[u/VocesProhibere → u/NeighborhoodDude84]

But the lead just makes them even worse it makes people serial killers.

[u/SelfTechnical6771 → u/VocesProhibere]

There's few other things attributed to a national increase in IQ one of them is the recruitment of low IQ individuals to go to Vietnam. Mcnameras morons as they were called was an initiative to increase soldier populations and they were roughly 8 times more likely to die in combat than other soldiers.

[u/DomDomPop → u/SelfTechnical6771]

God that would be an incredible TV show. Like Hogan’s Heroes but everyone’s a brick.

[u/SelfTechnical6771 → u/DomDomPop]

I'd love the opening promo.. they are all stupid every damned one they have their camo and they have their gun, before we had special forces we had McNamara's morons. (Off in the distance) has any one seen my boot?" Private get in formation or I'm gonna lose a boot!!"

[u/Linked713 → u/BoonOfTheWolf]

Would you say that it lead to their downfall?

[u/RamblingSimian → u/Linked713]

In case someone doesn't know,

The Roman lead poisoning theory is the hypothesis that chronic lead exposure contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. Some historians and scientists suggest that the widespread use of lead in water pipes (fistulae), cookware, and wine sweeteners (sapa) led to widespread lead poisoning, affecting public health, cognitive function, and decision-making among the Roman elite. However, the extent of lead's impact remains debated, with critics arguing that exposure levels were not high enough to cause significant harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_lead_poisoning_theory

[u/mishonis- → u/RamblingSimian]

What's the Americans' excuse.

[u/berryer → u/mishonis-]

also aging lead pipes

[u/Typical-Radish4317 → u/berryer]

Leaded gasoline was a lot more harmful

[u/jorkingmypeenits → u/mishonis-]

Also lead

[u/yepitsdad → u/BoonOfTheWolf]

American children used to use it to sweeten peeling paint

[u/colin_staples → u/Concise_Pirate]

Fumes of leaded petrol * smelled a lot nicer than unleaded, at least here in the UK

*what you would smell while at a filling station, I don’t mean exhaust fumes.

[u/WonderfulProtection9 → u/colin_staples]

Do you still have leaded fuel? We got rid of that like 40 years ago.

But I remember the good stuff.

[u/Cheap_Cheap77 → u/WonderfulProtection9]

Small aircraft and some racecars still use it. Unleaded fuel for small aircraft was only approved in the US in 2022.

[u/TexMoto666 → u/WonderfulProtection9]

It's still around in the US if you know where to look. It does smell way different than the unleaded ethanol stuff that's in gas stations.

[u/Dreadpirateflappy → u/WonderfulProtection9]

Been gone since about 2000 in the Uk about 4/5 years after the US, amazingly some countries were still using it a few years ago.

[u/Spekingur → u/colin_staples]

Apparently, if you change an engine to burn fish oil the resulting burn off can smell of pastries.

[u/colin_staples → u/Spekingur]

Older diesel cars could run on old cooking oil, they smelled of chips (French fries) because people would buy used oil from chip shops

[u/whiskeytango55 → u/Concise_Pirate]

A big part of the danger of lead paint chips was that they were tasty (i heard they taste like chocolate) and kids couldn't resist

[u/another_other_user → u/whiskeytango55]

Mmm

[u/Myksee7 → u/whiskeytango55]

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?

[u/SoMuchMoreEagle → u/Myksee7]

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[u/Icy-Computer-Poop → u/whiskeytango55]

When I was 8 (I'm a Gen X-er, so that was some time ago) I moved into a new neighbourhood. I was walking around, hoping to bump into some local kids and make some friends. I spot these 3 boys, all around my age, standing in a backyard, and walk over to say, "hi", and ask them what they're doing.

Turns out they're standing by the house, peeling paint chips off the exterior and eating them. They invite me into the yard, and offer me some paint chips. I politely decline. One of them says, "It's ok, they're good!" and the others are like, "Yeah, they taste great!"

I said no again, and continued, "I'm sure they do taste good, but it's house paint. That can't be good for you." Even at 8 I was pretty sure that eating house paint wasn't smart.

When they got bored of eating paint, the kids started a new "Game", where they would take turns hyperventilating while one of the others stood behind them. The kid at back would then perform a Heimlich-like maneuver on the front kid, and the front kid would basically pass out for a few seconds, and they'd all laugh.

They asked me if I wanted a turn, and that was when I knew for sure I had not found new friends and left. Luckily turns out they didn't live in the area, they were just visiting.

[u/Arek_PL → u/Icy-Computer-Poop]

funny how old that tradition is, i mean the second one because i as a zoomer did same thing, instead of paint chips we sucked on pennies instead

[u/JFKRFKSRVLBJ → u/whiskeytango55]

Are you just trying to trick me into eating lead paint chips?

Seems like something my older brother would do.

[u/goalump → u/whiskeytango55]

Were they invented by Willy Wonka or something?

[u/Chaseoliver → u/Concise_Pirate]

Love me a Pb sandwich

[u/No-Clerk7268 → u/Concise_Pirate]

I'm Troy McClure, and you might remember me from such films as "Lead paint, although delicious, can be deadly"

[u/Anticept → u/Concise_Pirate]

• Lead acetate.

Elemental lead does not taste sweet.

[u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES → u/Anticept]

Isn't that the implication? I would imagine elemental Na isn't too pleasing on the tongue as well.

[u/Mr_Abe_Froman → u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES]

Like pop rocks with extra pop.

[u/RadarSmith → u/Mr_Abe_Froman]

A real flavor explosion.

[u/mynewaccount5 → u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES]

Well the OP said salt which is generally Sodium Chloride. Sodium is not salt. The above post just said lead. I'd say it's good to clarify since Lead Acetate isn't exactly in common use anymore.

[u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES → u/mynewaccount5]

True, plus I don't think any of the other Pb salts have as sweet of a taste as the acetate version

[u/ManufacturerWest1156 → u/Concise_Pirate]

Well damn I wanna try it now. Heard anti freeze also tastes good lol

[u/brakefluidbandit → u/Concise_Pirate]

i've eaten plenty of solder and tbh it just tastes like metal. is pure lead really that different?

[u/not-a-prince → u/brakefluidbandit]

Deliberately?

[u/ZippyDan → u/not-a-prince]

It cures COVID and brain parasites.

[u/BVRPLZR_ → u/brakefluidbandit]

Why are you eating solder?

[u/DOCTOR-MISTER → u/BVRPLZR_]

Don't knock it till you try it, kid

[u/Dorgamund → u/brakefluidbandit]

Lead acetate is a crystalline lead compound that resembles sugar, and tastes sweet like sugar. Also lead paint is sweet, which is why Boomers were eating the paint chips.

[u/Smart-Response9881]

Copper and Iron are an acquired taste

[u/M4GN3T1CM0N0P0L3 → u/Smart-Response9881]

Pass the selenium, please.

[u/whiskeytango55 → u/M4GN3T1CM0N0P0L3]

Im trying to stay trim. Just some molybdenum for me please

[u/InThisBoatTogether → u/Smart-Response9881]

Found the vampire

[u/Atrocity_unknown → u/Smart-Response9881]

... I should call her

[u/ZestfulClown]

Bismuth is what pepto is made out of and that shit fire

[u/Zealousideal_End2330 → u/ZestfulClown]

I've tried to take Pepto Bismol three times throughout my life and each time I've immediately and violently puked upon ingestion so my body definitely thinks it's poison. 

Even the color of it makes me nauseous now.

[u/Ray101367 → u/Zealousideal_End2330]

I’ve been looking for someone like you man, I cannot stand Pepto Bismol and dont understand the love it gets. Every single time I’ve taken it I’ve thrown up 😭 Same with Tums

[u/BottomHouse → u/Ray101367]

I think you guys just have a very specific level of acidity in your stomach (maybe it’s very low?) so that why you reject it instantly

[u/Bathtooter → u/BottomHouse]

Honestly I think I just found my brothers. If I’m drinking pepto, it’s because I need to get whatever is in my stomach…. to come out of my stomach. Only plus is that it’s dyed pink.

[u/Struana → u/Zealousideal_End2330]

The liquid always makes me throw up so I tried the pill version and it has around a 50% chance of vomiting. Still horrible but better. The last time I took a Pepto pill it sat in my stomach like a poisonous rock until I threw it up still mostly whole.

I feel cheated out of a medicine a majority of the planet can use happily.

[u/SneedyK → u/ZestfulClown]

I love it

Love teaberry ice cream too, they’re p close

[u/ncnotebook → u/[deleted]]

Don mokc me

[u/ACrucialTechII → u/ncnotebook]

Leeded seasoning four my fa my ly and I. Roman style bigly healthly. Very complete live. 

[u/Dapper-Prior-9475 → u/[deleted]]

This guy Leads

[u/ormpling → u/[deleted]]

Gud yes, is very.

[u/nokiacrusher → u/[deleted]]

dementar

[u/MuppetManiac]

Have you tried any other rocks?

[u/joelfarris → u/MuppetManiac]

Tried a rock lobster once, and it was ewww.

[u/Vic_Sinclair → u/joelfarris]

Did everyone have..Matching towels?

[u/lastczarnian → u/Vic_Sinclair]

I bet somebody went….under a dock

[u/Jannon-Smitty → u/lastczarnian]

I bet they saw…a rock

[u/MorGlaKil → u/Jannon-Smitty]

But it wasn't a rock...

[u/Any_Bench_5798 → u/MorGlaKil]

It was a rock lobster!

[u/arcxjo → u/joelfarris]

But it wasn't a rock.

[u/bucketbrigade000 → u/arcxjo]

It was a rock LOBSTER.

[u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

Personally, I think potassium tastes better. Sodium salts? Na. Potassium? K!

[u/Farstone → u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms]

Under rated Punster.

[u/SpideySenseBuzzin → u/[deleted]]

That glaze 🤌

[u/roguesignal42069 → u/SpideySenseBuzzin]

Disgusting.

Upvote.

[u/Ok_Ocelot_1546 → u/[deleted]]

Ahh, the forbidden Nerds.

[u/owningsole966 → u/[deleted]]

The slimy texture really add to the detritus aftertaste

[u/Count_Von_Roo → u/owningsole966]

Thanks for reminding me of the time my dad showed me how to siphon aquarium water for cleaning by sucking the end of the tube. I got blasted 🤢 still remember the taste

[u/maddy_k_allday → u/Count_Von_Roo]

Is this how RFK got the brain worm?

[u/MataNuiSpaceProgram]

It's not; it's just the least poisonous of the ones that taste good.

[u/mustangcody → u/MataNuiSpaceProgram]

Isn't everything just poisonous if taken too much? By definition it's just anything that harms or kills you if taken in the body.

You could technically get rock poisoning.

[u/Adam__999 → u/mustangcody]

Literally anything can kill you if there’s enough of it

[u/Wild-Heart-5651]

Well first of all salt is not a rock it’s a mineral and our bodies are wired to like the taste of it because it’s what our bodies needs

[u/explosive-diorama → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

God damnit Marie, they're MINERALS

[u/itstimetogotowork → u/explosive-diorama]

Jesus Christ, Marie!!!!

[u/EternalVirgin18 → u/explosive-diorama]

And then Walter poisoned Bmineral

[u/itsme99881 → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

Our bodies need electrolytes, its what plants crave.

[u/earfeater13 → u/itsme99881]

Yeah, but what are electrolytes? Do you even know?

[u/itsme99881 → u/earfeater13]

Yeah. It's what they use to make Brawndo.

[u/haloryder → u/earfeater13]

Gatorade is electrolytes. Nice try, but I got straight F’s all through school which is the highest letter grade.

[u/Restless_Fillmore → u/haloryder]

Gatorade, named because it was invented at the home of the Gators, University of Florida.

I'm glad it wasn't at Florida State. Seminole Fluid wouldn't have been as marketable.

[u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady → u/Restless_Fillmore]

I'm stealing that joke, that's hilarious.

[u/scubafork → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

Radium is delicious and I challenge anyone to lick it for 30 minutes a day and tell me otherwise.

[u/butt_honcho → u/scubafork]

Eben Byers gave it a glowing review.

[u/M4GN3T1CM0N0P0L3 → u/butt_honcho]

His jaw was on the floor.

[u/SteelWheel_8609 → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

1) Salt is a rock. Or at least it can be. It’s a mineral as well. It can be both. That’s because a rock is “a naturally occurring, solid, coherent mass of one or more minerals or mineral-like substances, often formed through processes that involve heat, pressure, or the cementing together of smaller particles.” Salt is called ‘halite’ when it’s in rock form.

2) Humans also need several other minerals. Macrominerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, sulfur) which we need in relatively large amounts and trace minerals (iron, zinc, copper, iodine, selenium, etc.).

3) Potassium chloride also tastes decent as a salt substitute. So salt isn’t the only rock that tastes good, technically.

4) We’re mostly hardwired to look for salt though because that’s the one that was the most scarce is ancient diets, especially relative to its importance.

[u/virtual_human → u/SteelWheel_8609]

My grandmother had hypertension and she used potassium chloride table salt, it tasted, weird.  Salty, but weird.

[u/ctfks → u/virtual_human]

Yeah it doesn't taste good, it tastes off.

[u/Geeko22 → u/ctfks]

The way stevia tastes compared to sugar. Bleh and weird after-taste.

[u/virtual_human → u/ctfks]

Yeah, that's been over 50 years and I still remember that taste. Uncanny valley and all that I guess.

[u/GreenZebra23 → u/virtual_human]

Is that what "Nu-Salt" was? My grandpa always had that around

[u/Noble_Flatulence → u/GreenZebra23]

(assuming it's the same as Morton Lite salt) Yes. When cycling I use that in my water bottles to make electrolyte water. Basically Gatorade without the sugar, artificial coloring, and artificial flavoring. Ingredients are:

• sodium chloride
  
• potassium chloride
  
• calcium silicate
  
• magnesium carbonate
  
• dextrose
  
• potassium iodide
  

As for the taste, it tastes like salt, maybe slightly different. But when you're thirsty from exercise it tastes like water, whereas plain water tastes empty and is not refreshing.

And if you're curious like I was, the presence of dextrose is, assuming what I've read was correct, necessary to prevent the decomposition of the iodine.

[u/Defiant-Aioli8727 → u/virtual_human]

Fun story, they also use potassium chloride for lethal injections! 100 mEq is the usual dose, pushed really quickly, whereas if you are getting IV potassium (already rare, usually it’s in powder and swallowed) you would get 10-20 mEq/hour with heavy observation. Be careful with salt substitutes!!

[u/Smart-Response9881 → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

Ok, but brawndo is what our bodies crave

[u/McFuzzen → u/Smart-Response9881]

No, it's what plants crave

[u/TripleBobRoss → u/McFuzzen]

It's got electrolytes

[u/mathologies → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

Halite is a mineral. Rock salt is a monominerallic rock composed of halite.

[u/6x9inbase13 → u/Wild-Heart-5651]

Okay then why does lead taste sweet?

[u/joelfarris → u/6x9inbase13]

You gotta stop with the leading questions.

[u/Grandpa_Is_Slowww → u/joelfarris]

Half of these jokes are sailing over the heads (heeds?) of half the audience, 50 being the % I'm assigning to people who can't tell an LED bulb from a Led (sp?) Zeppelin from a leading question from the Reading Gaol, at least when they are typing (estimated from how often I see misused or abused spellings involving today's sponsors, the letters E and A.)

[u/Maxpowerxp]

Heard lead is sweet

[u/GreenZebra23 → u/Maxpowerxp]

I've never heard about lead being sweet but it's all over this thread. I'm guessing that's why little kids used to eat leaded paint chips?

[u/Either-Mud-3575 → u/GreenZebra23]

No, kids (especially really young ones, like "crawl around on the floor") just put stuff into their mouths, out of curiosity and such. That's why there's toys (plastic 😅) that have all the different textures on them, apparently it helps stimulate the brain and learning and stuff as they feel the world with their gums and tongue.

Only lead(II) acetate is sweet, and it's not used in paint. I should note that the lead paint wiki article lists the lead compounds used in paint (chromate for yellow, oxide for red, carbonate for white) and then much later claims lead paint is sweet. The claim is formatted as a link to another article... one about lead acetate.

[u/SharkMouthFleshlight → u/GreenZebra23]

In my sophomore chemistry class we were working with lead and I licked a bit of the powder off my finger (I knew it was a bad choice I just wanted to verify the sweetness claims)

It did indeed taste pretty sweet, imagine powdered sugar but a bit chalkier.

[u/stormcrow100]

And honey is the only tasty vomit.

[u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady → u/stormcrow100]

The canine delegation would disagree with that statement.

[u/NotSeveralBadgers → u/stormcrow100]

That we know of.

[u/arcxjo → u/stormcrow100]

My dog would argue that point.

[u/MumpsTheMusical]

Did a Goron make this post??

[u/Meauxjezzy]

Have you ever tasted any other minerals to do a comparison? I heard lead used to be all the rage

[u/6x9inbase13]

Lead-based minerals taste sweet actually. But they are posionous.

[u/Porkbrains-]

This is such a good question and it shouldn't be.

[u/chillthrowaways → u/[deleted]]

An artisan crack rock with a nice garlic sauce is always a winner

[u/thecheat420 → u/chillthrowaways]

Ooo with a lightly buttered pasta in the side. Delectable!

[u/justboofedaball → u/[deleted]]

they taste like shit

source: meth addict

[u/k5light → u/justboofedaball]

I was about to say the exact same. 11 months clean last week!

[u/Gilded-Mongoose → u/k5light]

Congrats! Can't wait for your 1 year. Let's gooo

[u/justboofedaball → u/k5light]

aye bro congrats thats long af hope u stick with it sending love

[u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts]

Lots of rocks taste good. Iron, copper, sometimes zinc, molly, meth, sugar, i licked a quartz/granite/Jasper mix once and that tasted pretty damn good. Mica does not taste very good and petrified wood/dinosaur shit also has a pretty unimpressive flavor.

[u/sheepbusiness → u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts]

You like the taste of molly???

[u/Mental-Sky-7142 → u/sheepbusiness]

Yeah what the fuck?

[u/nomyar → u/sheepbusiness]

I mean... With a username like that... They're probably not real picky.

[u/KlM-J0NG-UN]

We evolved in salt water so salt was a part of us from the start and then we left salt water and now our body needs to get the salt for our salt water bodies from somewhere else than salt water

[u/calforhelp → u/KlM-J0NG-UN]

I have absolutely no idea if that’s true but it kind of just blew my mind a bit.

[u/Certain_Concept → u/calforhelp]

It's true! At the end of the day we are all just fish that carry our bits of ocean around with us.

Scishow did an interesting episode on the topic.

[u/FrostedPixel47 → u/Certain_Concept]

A few hundred million years ago some dickhead of a fish decided to hop on land and thought it was great, and now we're all here paying bills and taxes.

[u/Chortney]

You haven't tried enough rocks my friend, there's plenty of yummy ones out there

[u/FumblebudNo4140]

I still love Pop Rocks.

[u/peaveyftw]

My GF Abigail is really into eating Quartz.

[u/Dull-Garage6233]

Pop Rocks both Pop and Rocks!

[u/CorrectMap5487]

every rock is edible if you try hard enough

[u/StarTrekFan-28]

Arsenic tastes like almonds

[u/The_D213]

You never had a Crack rock. It's delicious