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Meat that had been preserved in this way was frequently called "junk" [4] or "salt horse". [5] One early method of salt-curing meat was corning, or applying large, coarse pellets of salt, which were rubbed into the meat to keep it from spoiling and to preserve it. [6] This term originates from Old English and references the large corns or ...
Salting (union organizing), a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union; Salting (initiation ceremony), an early modern English university initiation ceremony; Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icing agent; Salting a bird's tail, a ...
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Salting is considered a form of confidence trick and has been employed throughout history to defraud stakeholders in the mining industry. Examples are the diamond hoax of 1872 and the former Canadian gold company Bre-X .
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing is a 2005 book by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn about using the process of charcuterie to cure various meats, including bacon, pastrami, and sausage. The book received extremely positive reviews from numerous food critics and newspapers, causing national attention to be brought to the ...
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
The same is true of salting a page on Wikipedia (restricting certain categories of user from creating it): Like a lock on one's front door, it will keep out curious good-faith parties and driveby vandals, but salting will not keep out a determined attacker. It will only make them harder to find.
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