Dec
4th
2017
Ponies and Salt · 2:18am Dec 4th, 2017
I've recently come to a realization.
In a lot of stories on here, authors tend to use salt as a substitute for alcohol in the world of ponies.
Appaloosa and similar Western themed towns often have bars called "The Salt Lick" or something similar.
So, here's my question: If ponies treat salt like booze, then would a pony visiting the ocean by like a human visiting a giant (free) brewery?
Why are there no stories of beach-going ponies getting salt-drunk while swimming? Seems like a lot of wasted story potential.
Much like there's alcohol and alcohol, there's salt and there's salt. Because it is filtered by passing through sediment before crystallization, rock salt (halite) is very pure, typically containing 90-98% sodium chloride. Of the stuff in ocean water, only about 85% is sodium chloride, with the rest being sulfates, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and other minerals, most of which you don't want in you.
Or in the alternative, who's to say AJ, Pinkie, and Rarity didn't get sea-drunk on their boat trip? One more reason their accounts differed so wildly?
In my opinion and stories: Salts enhance alcohol's effects as equines are unable to get drunk by straight up drinking. So salts, or Salts -salt mixed with drugs- are an enhancer more than a drug itself.
I've read literally 70 million horse words and it still surprises me that in a Human in Equestria story Rainbow Dash doesn't keep trying to lick the human because we sweat salt.