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Tasting like the sea kissed you—and slightly overdid it.
means Salty in flavor or smell, especially in the salt-of-the-ocean sense, from pickles to seawater.
from From Old English bryne, meaning salt water or brine, the liquid that has been pickling food and preserving meat for over a thousand years.
Poetic seaThe briny is old slang for the ocean itself.
Pickle chemistryBrine draws water out, starving spoilage microbes.
Saltier than tearsSeawater holds roughly 3.5 percent salt by weight.