IOWA Culinary Road Crews

[Bob_VT]

C&P for those of us that live in places where road salt is used

Iowa town's roads well seasoned
1 day ago

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) ? Slush has never smelled so spicy. City crews in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny are using garlic salt to melt snow and ice on streets from Tuesday's storm. The salt was donated by Tone Brothers Inc., a top spice producer headquartered in Ankeny.

Public Works Administrator Al Olson said the company donated 18,000 pounds of garlic salt to use on its 400 miles of roads.

Olson doesn't have details, but he said the salt would have ended up in the landfill, so the company donated it. A telephone call Wednesday to Tone Brothers wasn't immediately returned.

Olson said the city mixed the garlic salt with regular road salt and it works fine. He said some road workers say it makes them hungry, but Olson doesn't recommend it to spice up lunch or dinner.

 

[Limited-Time]

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I heard that story on Paul Harvey News yesterday. There is a shortage or road salt in some areas this winter. It was reported there, the garlic salt was to old to package for resale so a deal was struck and it was sold to the city.

 

[Bob_VT]

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People will arrive at home and work starving!!

 

[Limited-Time]

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The money to purchase the garlic salt was probably donated by the local restaurants.

 

[OldePharte]

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Tone's, the spice company, had the surplus (out of date product).

Locally, they are adding beet juice to lower the freezing temp of the rock salt.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Tone's, the spice company, had the surplus (out of date product).

Locally, they are adding beet juice to lower the freezing temp of the rock salt.

When I was in the Show Me State doing road work we used to add foundry slag (sand blasting media) to the sand/salt. It would absorb the sun light and help melt the ice.

 

[Limited-Time]

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When I was in the Show Me State doing road work we used to add foundry slag (sand blasting media) to the sand/salt. It would absorb the sun light and help melt the ice.

They did the same thing in Cleveland Ohio area back in the steel days.

They also mixed sand and salt together at times.

 

[mphy98]

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anyone for Italian? just driving there would make me want some lasagna. saw it up here on our local TV station. good yuks

 

[UnregisteredUser]

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Very interesting story...

Our town just starting using salt about ten years back, prior to that they bought hot ash and cinder from our local charcoal plants and would spread it by putting three guys in the back of the dump truck with scoop shovels. You didn't want to follow too closely as the hot cinders would melt into your tires.

Garlic Salt would be a welcomed aroma around here.

 

[Limited-Time]

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Would that be classified as "Gourmet" road salt??

 

[Bondo]

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Ayuh,...

I just Love garlic salt on my corn on the cob,....

Looks like the Idea is catching on in Iowa......

 

[DJ]

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I wonder what it would do to the taste of "Road Kill Stew"?