Salt cools food down, pepper warms it up

Always adding salt to my soup which was obviously served hot, I thought that salt cooled off the food.

mateo

I used to believe that salt was used to cool food down, and pepper to make it hotter. I guess that this arose from someone telling me that pepper was hot. Anyway, i believed it until I was at least 5. Sad!

Jizzzzzzzzzzzo

When my brother was little he thought that salt would cool off your food. It took us a while to figure out what he was doing; meanwhile he ate a lot of salt!

Laura