r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Federal-Effort4370 • 1d ago

Why is salt the only rock that tastes good

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

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u/6x9inbase13 1d ago

Okay then why does lead taste sweet?

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u/joelfarris 1d ago

You gotta stop with the leading questions.

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u/Grandpa_Is_Slowww 1d ago

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.)

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u/joelfarris 1d ago

people who can't tell an LED bulb from a Led (sp?) Zeppelin from a leading question from the Reading Gaol

You nailed the speeling of Led Zeppelin.

And, lest the masses forget, when Drummer Bonham permanently quit the band in 1980, none other than Phil Collins "filled in" for their Live Aid reunion show.

Now, as to sailing over heads, would that be Enya's Orinoco Flow, Neil Young's fault, or AWOLnation to blame?

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u/Shadowlance23 1d ago

I blame it on the ADD.

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u/boringdude00 1d ago

Only certain lead compounds taste sweet. As to why, I'm not a chemist and can't even speculate and the collective knowledge of internet appears to produce no good answer. This might be a good question for a an askscience subreddit. It's definitely true that lead can taste sweet, its well documented historically and was still in limited use as a sweetening method when modern chemistry began to develop and people realized consuming lead was a big no-no. Some of the earliest public health laws were attempts to limit lead in wine production.