From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@home.com)
Date: 11/15/00-11:03:21 AM Z
> I would assume also that other ingredients (salt, acid, whatever) would
> improve keeping qualities, in the way that adding salt or spice to food
> preserves it. That's why botulinus grows in string beans, not pickles.
> (Hmmmm....)
Yes yes and this is why the Romans paid their African soldiers in salt. Salt
was actually traded for Central African gold. The very word, salary, comes
from all that.
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