Origin of "Go pound salt"
Posted by Teresa DeSantis on December 09, 2001
What is the origin and the meaning
of "go pound salt?"
I've only heard this used by one person, a gentleman who
works for the county, in his reference to those people who do not pay their land
taxes. If the people become delinquent in their taxes and the county has attempted
contact, after two full years, "We tell them to go pound salt," and the county
then repossses the land.
Why salt? Why pound? Who are the salt pounders? Does
one pound one's own salt? Why?
- Archives on "Go pound salt" R. Berg 12/09/01