I'm watching the 1963 movie "Come Fly With Me" and about 1hr into the movie one of the female leads when in Vienna sprinkles salt on her icecream. The team at Mad Men really do their research.

salt cantaloupe, watermelon, pizza, never tried ice cream. Will give it a go.

This is actually pretty common among older generations. (Say, grandparents and up.) From the days of homemade ice cream in the 50's and prior to that, salt often got into the ice cream during the making process. People who grew up with it tasting that way are used to it, and need to salt theirs to make it taste "right".

I only salt my french toast and never put on syrup or anything sweet. . .

Salted Caramel ice cream is a very popular flavor in your more highbrow artisan shops these days. Salted licorice too.

think about how delicious chocolate ice cream & salted peanuts taste.i also like to eat something chocolate w/ something salty!

i'm a salt on watermelon kind of gal. i have an uncle who likes salt on canteloupe as well, though i'm more of a canteloupe purist myself.

Besides activating the "salty" taste buds, salt basically turns up the gain on all your other kinds of taste buds. It is a cheap and easy way to increase the flavor of anything. That's why most people end up eating way more sodium than they need.

I put Soy Sauce on popcorn. Apparently that's wierd.

I had and ice cream maker as a kid and you would put salt in w/the ice so that way the cream would stick to the churn as you rotated it. Sometimes, the ice cream had a faint taste of salt.

Also, the oranges thing... I read in an article that smelling oranges are part of the aura that signify when a person is getting close to having a stroke or a seizure. Just FYI