Privileged solution to a waste problem, just throw more salt over your left shoulder!
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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You throw the spilled salt....
This led to the common misconception that due to salt being such a valuable item Roman soldiers were paid in it. There is no historical evidence for this belief.[7][8] The idea is so widely held and has been for so long that the etymology of the word salary comes from the Latin salarium was originally salt money (Lat. sal, salt), i.e. the sum paid to soldiers for salt.[9]
i thought this was true!