Please tell me, what is the point of salt around a margarita glass?!


Question: Please tell me, what is the point of salt around a margarita glass!?
is it supposed to get salt in your margarita for flavour to make t taste good!?

or is it so you make funny faces at your friends as you drink it together to make them laugh!?

if its because of the former, is there supposed to be salt inside a margarita!?or did i just add too much and achieve the latter effect!? thanksWww@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
someone said the best taste of every kind of food or drink have 3 taste mixed together!.

Sweet sour and salty!.!.
MAgarita is the best Cocktail!.!.!.for it have equally taste of the three i mention!.
If you mix it in the right way you will understand how fantastic it is/Www@FoodAQ@Com

The human mouth tastes 4 basic flavours - sweet, salt, sour, bitter!. In the same way there are only 3 primary colours but we see tens of thousands of different colours and shades those four flavours in varied combinations make up our pallette of taste!. The margherita has the sweet and bitter, any garnish (lemon) the sour and the salt on the rim all combine to give a rounded flavour!. Vary the ammounts get a different taste!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

It dehydrates you and makes you want to drink more!. Same can be said of free salted nuts or salted pop corn!. Principally marketing tool, but I take salt with tequila because it does taste that bit better!. Should be noted, if I'm drinking tequila, the long term plan isn't staying sober :'0)Www@FoodAQ@Com

When a margarita is made the bartenders wet the outside of the glass and put rock salt on the outside!. If it is a strawberry or other sweet margarita, sugar is used!. You don't have to order it that way!. I prefer mine without either!. It is just a matter of tasteWww@FoodAQ@Com

my boyfriend loves salt around his glass and inside his margaritas !.!. it gives it a totally different taste even if its just around the rim!.!. believe me i hate salt around the rim !~!Www@FoodAQ@Com

Salt just tastes good with tequila!. You can keep drinking from the same place on your glass if you don't want it with every drink!. Some people prefer sugar on the rim of their margarita glass!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

its put on the rim to give you a slight salty taste before drinking the sometimes sour margarita!.!.!.its cuts the bitterness

like licking salt then doing a shot of tequilaWww@FoodAQ@Com

When you're in a country like Mexico, you sweat a lot, therefore losing salt!. This replaces it!. Simple as that!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

it enhances the flavour but only when on the rim of the glass not inside the drink!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

keeps the flys off the rim of the glass when your drinking it!.!.!.same reason you use a lemon wedge on mexican beer bottlesWww@FoodAQ@Com

ye it enchances the flavaWww@FoodAQ@Com

salt compliments tequilla, so does a limeWww@FoodAQ@Com

for the taste and the cool look :::)Www@FoodAQ@Com

I never do because my margarita is so sweet - salt would ruin it!Www@FoodAQ@Com





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