Why do slugs dissolve if you sprinkle salt on them?
In: Biology
It doesn’t so much disintegrate the slug as turn the slug inside out through its skin.
It’s the same way you make cole slaw & sour kraut. You add salt to cabbage and it draws the water out of the cabbage. It even ruptures some of the cell walls. So instead of tough & chewy cabbage you end up with soft yet crunchy salty juicy cabbage.
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Crunchy salty juicy slugs don’t go quite as well with beer and hotdogs though.
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