Salt: uncountable noun?

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Salt is really uncountable in most general uses. It is not a matter of counting the grains; it is how we perceive it.
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or are we just lazy?--I don't know what you mean by that??

Flour, sugar, salt, pepper, cooking oil, water, coffee, and rice etc. are all used in uncountable context most of the time unless a quantifier is used. i.e.
2 cubes of sugar.
A dash of salt
2 cups of flour.

There are a great many chemical compounds called salts, but I doubt you would want very many of them on your food. And I doubt that people would want to ask for that uncountable "table salt" specifically by its chemical name NaCl whenever they wanted some.

California Jim... great response to the question. I hadn't looked at that ambiguity of salt as uncountable thinking of the question, which was meant to be tongue in cheek.

Actually you all answered a real question, which was how fast and accurately a question would be answered on this forum, as this was my first post.
3 well written responses directly... impressive.

Than

CalifJimOn some days we are lazy, and on other days we are quite energetic, but I don't see what that has to do with salt.

Calif Jim, I guess the author meant if we are lazy TO COUNT.... the grains of salt probably. Taking it seriously - if we weren't "lazy", salt would be countable because we could count the grains, huh? But as a joke... I think I've hea

Anonymousif we weren't "lazy",

Or if we had better eyes!
CJ

I need salt for my soup