Anyone here put salt on watermelon? It was something that I had never heard of until a year or two back until I happened to mention that watermelons were the only refreshment that seemed to hit the spot when it was super stuffy at night. A chef friend on facebook said that I simply had to have it with salt, and then about a thousand other people chimed in and said "Oh yeah it's amazing, you gotta try it" and made me feel as though there was a whole universe of people eating watermelon with salt and looking down on hapless ignorant fools like me who somehow were unaware of this. Anyway, I tired it and, yeah, fair enough, they were right, it did add something. And then I added salt every time and I got used to it and now I basically look down on anyone who doesn't as some kind provincial backwards fool (not really).
And that was the end of the story* until now, cos when girlfriend came back from France she'd eaten loads of melon there and now she keeps buying loads of different types of melon from the local supermarkets. To be honest, unfathomably, I didn't really know much about melons, in my head there were watermelons which are incredibly refreshing and, other, inferior ones, which I believed to be less refreshing and thus not worth considering. But actually it turns out that lots of them are really good. And they're pretty much all better with salt in my opinion.
Yesterday had a beautifully sweet one, dunno what it was but it was fantastic. Especially with salt.
Today my dinner was I bought a pizza from Aldi - bacon and some sort of cheese - but on top of it I put a whole tin of anchovies and all of the oil before I put it in the oven. And it worked really well, the oil sort of sank into the cheese and it all puffed up and became fluffy and delicious and the topping worked perfectly too - in fact the anchovy flattened everything else and the rest of it couldn't really be tasted but that suits me cos I like anchovy.
But then afterwards, because of the salt I guess, and also because it's a really super stuffy night, I developed a raging, uncontrollable thirst. Nothing will slake it. I've had litres of water, a huge cup of tea (can sometimes do the job when colder drinks somehow fail), several cans of lager, I've had muscatel and then more water still and I'm still so thirsty. And then I remembered the delicious melon from last night... but if I have deliciously refreshing melon with salt on it, will it refresh me or just make me more thirsty?
*using an incredibly generous definition of the word "story"