I was joking with my wife, after shopping at a local health-food store, that if I went back I was going to ask for organic table salt. (I’m not referring to actual organic compounds that happen to be salts.)
The joke was on me — it turns out that health food stores do carry “organic salt”. By “organic”, they mean “pure”, or “made by vegan hippies”, or some such. Apparently, none of their regular customers ever call them on it.
I would be hard-pressed to hold my tongue. I'd want to know what, exactly, is organic about the salt (assuming it's NaCl).
“...I was going to ask for organic table salt...”
I read a report recently somewhere that was talking about how buyers must be careful when buying “sea salt” because of heavy metal and bacterial contamination.
To me, an organic salt would be something like Sodium acetate, which would give a salt-and-vinegar flavor. However, I don’t think that those who run organic food stores ever sat through an organic chemistry class.