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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 09:11 PM
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Anyone ever put salt on their fruit?
I came across this article http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090115/wl_time/08599187163500 about salt in coffee - I don't drink coffee myself, so I don't care, but they made this observation:

What inspired those chefs to come up with sea salt coffee? According to spokeswoman Kathy Chung, it was the Taiwanese habit of sprinkling salt on fruits like pineapple and watermelon to bring out their sweetness. Salty coffee also makes sense in a place where shaved-ice desserts are topped with corn kernels and breads get slathered with sugary frosting and bits of pork. "Taiwanese are greedy," explains graphic designer Xena Wang, one of six friends who recently tried the drink for the first time. "We like to get all the tastes we can in one bite."


I've never salted fruit, unless it was in a margarita, and lord knows watermelon today is pretty much tasteless, so I was curious if anyone here had experimented with it. Now I want to try it, but it's so frickin' cold here I'm damned if I'm going out to the store tonight.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 09:19 PM
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1. My Boston buddies
in college always salted their bananas.

I salt all melons.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 09:22 PM
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2. Depends on the fruit
A few grains of salt can certainly help the "picked green, shipped a thousand miles and then sprayed with ethylene gas" produce in the supermarket.

Just don't put more than a few grains on it, though, or all you'll taste will be salt.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 09:38 PM
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3. I like it on watermelon.
I don't know why, but I like that combination.

I like all kinds of cheese, some of which are salty, on all kinds of fruit. Cheese fondue with apples, pears and grapes (and of course really good french bread) is one of my most favorite meals.

:hi:
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 10:11 PM
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5. I definitely like cheese with fruit
Cheddar with apples is the classic, of course, but fruit and cheese courses are common.

Speaking of fondue, though, I'll post (or re-post?) my recipe for that.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 10:31 PM
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7. Please do post your fondue recipe, and I will add mine.
I have a friend who makes an apple pie with a cheddar cheese crust. OMG!
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 09:50 PM
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4. Hawaii
Edited on Fri Jan-16-09 09:52 PM by troubleinwinter
In the mornings, sitting on my grandmother's lanai, with papaya that had come from the tree just minutes before, half of us used lime juice, half of us used a bit of salt. I used salt. I do love a sliced green apple with a tad of salt.

As kids in Hawaii, we'd go to the saimin parlor and put a dash of soy sauce in our glass bottles of coke.

As a snack, we'd buy Li Hing Mui. A dried salted fruit (probably had been plums once upon a time). They tasted pretty much like a bullion cube.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 10:20 PM
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6. my dad put salt on watermelon
Edited on Fri Jan-16-09 10:22 PM by grasswire
...and sugar on cottage cheese. He spent his youth in Saskatchewan, on the prairies. My father-in-law also put salt on watermelon, and he was from Kansas.
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likesmountains 52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 10:42 PM
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8. I remember salting apple slices as a kid..
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 11:14 PM
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9. I salt AND pepper my cantaloupe
I just like it that way. :shrug:

That is the only fruit that I touch with salt, but when I was in Hawaii, people salted the pineapple. They claimed it cut down on the acid that would make their mouths sore. I never tried it.
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 08:03 PM
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19. That's what we did when I was a kid
I just eat the cantaloupe plain now. Actually, I almost never put salt on anything now because of blood pressure, but I don't think I would salt cantaloupe anymore anyway.
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susanna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 11:26 PM
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10. I love salt on watermelon.
Edited on Fri Jan-16-09 11:42 PM by susanna
It does do something nice to the taste. My mom and grandma did it (southern), so I always have too. I have also used it in macerated strawberries in balsamic vinegar...I even add the teensiest pinch of pepper to that, and it's wonderful. Sounds weird, but really a great combination.

I absolutely adore anything salted then covered in chocolate OR salted popcorn/pretzels and some sort of chocolate eaten together. The salt seems to cut the richness or sweetness of the chocolate. (Of course chocolate is not a fruit, but it is one of my required food groups.)

on edit: typo in subject
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 03:35 AM
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11. My husband salts apples, grapefruit, watermelon
I think he might even salt walla walla sweets, iirc. He grew up in Washington so he picked apples right off the tree and salted them and ate them. Seems criminal to me. I don't use much salt on anything so I couldn't begin to tell you what flavor it changes.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 07:06 AM
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12. yep - tomatoes
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 08:58 AM
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13. Sweet and Salty
Absolutely!

Melon with prosciutto
Grapes with Cheese
Apple Pie with Cheddar


Melon, apples, watermelon - A little bit sea salt just improves the whole experience..
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mt13 Donating Member (281 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 09:11 PM
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21. chocolate covered pretzels!
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 09:34 AM
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14. I used to salt cantaloupes
for my breakfast in the morning when I was a kid. Still do sometimes.

It does bring out a stronger flavor of the fruit that way.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 11:54 AM
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15. Used to put it on
apples, watermelon and muskmelon. Don't put it on any fruit now. A couple of girls I used to work with put salt and pepper on their oranges. :crazy:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 05:11 PM
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16. My sister puts salt on her grapefruit and her watermelon.
I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell is wrong with her. She also puts MUSTARD on her french fries.
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 05:17 PM
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17. I put a pinch of salt in my coffee
My mother use to put washed egg shells along with a pinch of salt in with the grounds in her perculator.

I do like a bit of salt on the watermelon and sometimes on cantelope. Fresh cracked Black Pepper on Cantelope is lovely. Cheeses like Gjetost lend a salty flavor to apples and pears and who can resist a salad with pears, blue cheese and pecans. Sweet and salty are a terrific treat. Just don't get me started on the ice cream/potato chip combos.....:wow:
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 06:04 PM
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18. All melons and apples. And pepper is great on cantaloupe.
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mt13 Donating Member (281 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 09:07 PM
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20. on canteloupe.
it brings out the sweetness!
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