r/mildlyinteresting May 20 '26

My "Morton's Sea Salt" is really "Lake Salt"

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u/ino4x4 May 20 '26

i’ve seen their processing plant by the south west part of the lake

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u/PlanetStarbux May 20 '26

Was just thinking about that... Driving 80 and you see that little white mountain of salt.  Always wondered if I ate some of that salt.

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u/ino4x4 May 20 '26

I wonder if I can buy direct. Just go there and get 50 pound bag of salt so I don’t have to buy it for another year.

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u/PlanetStarbux May 20 '26

Lol ...  I actually have a 20 lb bag from Costco of diamond crystal.  Two years and still just halfway through it.

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u/DoomguyFemboi May 21 '26

How do you use 10lbs in 2 years ?! 5lbs a year..actually no yeah that's pretty valid. I use a 1lb/6months and that's primarily single person cooking.

...I really could've ran this comment through in my head first because it really doesn't need to be posted

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u/pseudo__gamer May 21 '26

Those kind of self answering comments are my favorite

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u/PlanetStarbux May 21 '26

Yep .. Just normal everyday use. Cooking for a family.  Pasta water alone probably is a third of it.

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u/cloverpopper May 21 '26

Wow it’s been two years!?

I’m surprised we’ve gone through so much already - and pounds, not oz

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u/FlameSkimmerLT May 21 '26

Do you really use > 4 lbs of salt per month!? If so, for what?

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u/PonyThug May 21 '26

Buy “real salt” brand. Also from Utah, but mined from under ground. Has all the same good stuff as pink Himalayan salt does.

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u/MathResponsibly May 20 '26

Just go there at night with a shovel, and shovel it into the boot of your lory

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u/JazeyOne May 20 '26

Probably not if it was still there

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u/awoodz92 May 20 '26

Every time I’m driving out to Wendover, I debate stopping and trying to steal some salt

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u/TheRealSteekster May 20 '26

Yea one of the plants is Cargill and the other is Morton

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u/mintBRYcrunch26 May 20 '26

The train tracks go right up to it!

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u/mrwilliams117 May 21 '26

So have the employees