I’m sure it has to do with Palusbuteo...

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At the supermarket they have regular salt for $0.43 a pound. Then they have special salt with clay in it for $13.30 a pound.

That’s right, adding clay to your food makes it 30 times more valuable.
This explains a lot about the Romans paying people in salt. That always seemed a bit common for me. But, if they just added some clay to it, it would be worth a whole lot more. (Or charcoal, salt with charcoal was also on the shelf for the high cost/pound.)

And, while discussing things palusbuteo might be involved with, there was a Moxie explosion when I was shopping yesterday.

As I walked down the soda aisle, a bottle of diet Moxie fell off of the shelf and landed at my feet. I was able to see it fall, but not get to it to catch it. So, I was looking down at it when it hit.
Have you seen those Mentos mixed with diet Coke videos?
It exploded like that. Into my face.

I wiped my face clear, then went to the manager of the registers up front and explained there was a spill in the soda aisle.
As I went back to my cart, the man at the end of the aisle stocking Coke looked over.
“Moxie?” he said. “Be careful, that will melt right through the floor.”
I looked down expecting it to be like the alien blood in the Alien movies.
“It’s diet Moxie,” I said.
“Oh, that’s not so bad,” he said. “That will probably only go through the tiles.”

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[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

There's apparently a bar in Allston that does a "Dirty Water" cocktail: Moxie and rye whiskey.

I'll probably get the portions all wrong, but I'll be attempting a homemade version this weekend.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah yeah, blame the Romans for clay in the salt and explosive diet moxie.

:P~~~~~

Hey, it was DIET Moxie, not pure, delicious regular Moxie. It's that fake sweetner stuff in diet drinks that makes 'em so dangerous.

melt through the floor...jeeze...

never heard of putting clay in salt...have no idea why anyone would eat that, nevermind pay so much more for the experience. I know (or have been told) that they put clay as filler in McShakes...It's one more reason I've sworn off that junk years ago....I have been to resturants that put rice in their salt shakers, apparently to prevent the salt caking up

Next time I get my payday from the Legion, I'll have to examine my salarium a little more closely...will have to check my denarii as well :P With Emperor Vespasian rubbing coins all the time, maybe he's wearing the metal off of them....

[temperlj.livejournal.com]

Guess I won't talk about seaweed in Ice Cream then... LOL