Re: antonyms: regretful & tasty

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Now that's an expression I find really strange, since salting snails is a
> necessary prerequisite in their preparation if you want to eat them. That's
> how you clean them... How can this be taken to be making problems?
I'd guess that the reference is to slugs (shell-less snails) as garden pests,
rather than snails as food.  We salt slugs to dispose of them, but to salt
*all* slugs would, indeed, be to make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

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