Does your local chippy use fake salt?

17 comments

1. What exactly do you think would be “fake salt”?

2. Not been into the local chippy as it be recently been took over, under a new name, after closing for nearly a year.

3. Most chip shops don’t use malt vinegar but salt is ridiculously cheap. It’d only make sense to cut it with something cheaper, like sand.

4. That’s crack. They’re sprinkling your chips with crack.

5. Fake salt? What’s going to be cheaper than salt?

6. Maybe it’s the fake vinegar on your chips that’s throwing your taste buds.

7. Table salt/cheap salt is processed and contains additives including sugar. Pure salt, like sea salt isn’t particularly nice either IMO. Give me that fake salt!

8. If a chippy was so cheap as to use fake salt I would be more concerned about what else is fake about my meal.

9. I don’t know why, but this whole thread has tickled me.

10. My brother’s chippy uses 12.5kg bags of [DP table salt](http://www.dri-pak-salt.co.uk/speciality-salts/food-salt/table-cooking-salt-pdv/) which cost about a tenner each at the local cash and carry

    My brother says you’re daft… but admits to using fake vinegar

    EDIT: My brother adds, the order in which salt and (fake) vinegar is applied is important – vinegar first, then salt, he says

11. Your taste has probably changed inline with a high salt intake. I can’t imagine what you could cut salt with to make it any cheaper. Salt is cheap as chips.

12. You will get an “average” amount of salt and vinegar, and so if you like more, then it will be insufficient. Mrs tmstms and plenty of other people I’ve known in my life feel the same as you.

13. Is it because of the “vinegar” perhaps? They use non brewed condiment which is different to vinegar you probably have at home. So it’ll react with the salt differently.

14. I’ve heard some mundane conspiracy theories in my time….

15. My local chippy cuts their salt with cocaine. Tasty but the chips are ridiculously expensive

16. Low sodium salt is a thing.

    Ask them next.time

17. Summary of answers for everyone:

    1. I’m an idiot (?) who possibly also has a medical condition

    2. I’ve desensitised my taste buds through regular salt intake

    3. The non vinegar vinegar is altering the taste

    4. Cocaine

    5. Msg/other salt substitute with lower sodium

    6. Incorrect order of application