There's an interesting show on Discovery about salt mines right now. Salt. It has started a tangent, rich for exploration.

They "grow" crops of salt. Salary, Salubrious, Salutations, are these all linked to salt? On farms cows get salt licks, but before such things animals must have sought ought salt on their own.
Salt mining elephants of Kenya venture in caves to mine salt with their tusks and eat it up.
There's something magical about salt.
Taken with a pinch of salt.
You are the "salt of the earth." (quite the compliment!)
Tears are salty & salt makes you thirsty.
Salt for health "http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/salt.htm#study"
Natural, unprocessed salt can dissolve damaging calcium deposits in the body.
(gallstones? nerves? bile? brine? saline solutions? water softeners? electrolytes?) What's the link?
Crystals. Salt. Salt Caverns. Sparkling chambers. Epsom salts. White.
Salt can almost taste sweet when you sweat too much.
Just can't live
without
it.