Salted caramel

I am on a lo (basically no salt) diet and was recently given porridge with added salt. So averse am I to the taste now after all these years that I heaved and was nearly sick. My host could not understand how I could even tell there was salt in it (a miniscule amount apparently.) I have since been told it is the proper way to take porridge. Perhaps, and I have no problem with that. My gripe is why anyone would add "a tiny pinch" (?) knowing it was medically contraindicated?

I had porridge with a pinch of salt this morning, topped with a teaspoonful of honey.

My grandmother used to say 'a pinch of salt in everything except custard'. I think caramel may have been salted in the past but not mentioned in the description.
On Phoenix's recommendation I tried and loved Lidl SC ice cream cones. I haven't seen them for a while, probably just as well!

It shouldn't be too salty

The best ice cream I ever had was a salted caramel cornet from a little shop in Tenby. I'd never heard of salted caramel before then, it was a new flavour.

I love it! I noticed that one of the packet mix for Brownies had salted caramel in it and I have copied this when making my own. Family love them so I don't get the chance to overindulge myself. Lidl have jars of it on offer just now.

Greyduster you are not alone! Fudge/toffee/caramel are my favourite mouth feels. I far prefer them to chocolate. Eating a salted version of caramel is just WRONG! I put it in my mouth and expect creamy sweetness and then get the taste of sea water!! Yuck. It tastes to me like someone has mistakenly put salt in instead of sugar when they were making it. Having said that, I had some salt water taffy in New England and that was ok. But caramel to me should be buttery, creamy and sweet.

I’m convinced I’m the only person on Earth who hates salted caramel. I’ve loved butterscotch from being a child, but salted caramel is an aberration.
Dives back behind the sandbags!

I have always put a little salt in anything caramel or butterscotch that I made, it just seemed obvious to me. All they've done now is make it a little saltier. In most cases the total salt is probably less signficant than the salt you'd find in soups or sausages.
Aldi do a very dark chocolate with salt. I love it but one piece is plenty, it's very satisfying.

My comments were really about how it seems to have become a craze all of a sudden and seems to be everywhere at the moment. I agree Baggs no one has to eat it just like no one has to eat lots of sugar but that doesn't stop the powers that be trying to force companies to cut down on the amount of sugar they put in cereals etc.

I know it's not a healthy combination, but anyone looking for an occasional treat - Morrisons frozen salted caramel profiterole gateau is bloody lovely! (and only £4).

I love salted caramel, I congratulate the person who dreamed up such a diametrically opposed combination, it works for me every time

Salted caramel is lovely. Why shouldn't we put it in appropriate foods? We add chocolate to biscuits and cakes. Why not salted caramel?

Nobody is going to force you to eat it if you don't want to because you think it's bad for you.

I think it just offers consumers a wider variety of tastes, and maybe it’s a bit like when they introduced chilli chocolate. Probably not something that would have been considered palatable 20 years ago.

Salted caremel coffee ohhhh lovely do limit myself though

DH (along with many others I imagine) has to be on a very low salt diet which is probably why we notice it more than others might. Most restaurants now have at least one 'salted' something on the menu.
I expect it would be a bit 'edgier' for him maw it would make his blood pressure shoot up

Oh its nice though!
I hadn't thought of the salt content, I must admit.

Do you think it is intended to sound “ edgier” and less sweet?