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What sport's fighters throw salt before a bout?
Answer: Sumo
Why: The toss is a symbolic cleansing of the ring, borrowed from Shinto, which uses salt for purification.
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Where in France does salted butter caramel come from?
Answer: Brittany
Why: Under the old monarchy, Brittany was one of the provinces exempt from the gabelle, France's salt tax.
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Where were salt bars called amole used as money?
Answer: Ethiopia
Why: In 1903, amole salt bars still made up about 27 percent of the Ethiopian Empire's tax revenue.
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Which fish's salted eggs are true caviar?
Answer: Sturgeon
Why: Salmon or lumpfish roe can look similar, but the FAO counts roe from outside the sturgeon family as a caviar substitute.
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Where in Italy is a protected bread made with no salt?
Answer: Tuscany
Why: Tuscany's bread consortium links the saltless loaf to a medieval dispute over salt taxes between Pisa and Florence.
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When did France finally abolish the gabelle salt tax?
Answer: 1945
Why: The Revolution scrapped the gabelle in 1790, but Napoleon brought it back in the early 1800s.
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