“Salty” seems to describe a slightly more active and open disdain than “bitter”, at least in my experience.
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Salt closes off some of the channels we use to process bitterness IIRC. So, if you had something extremely bitter, that was also salty, it's plausible you'd taste salt and have a bitter aftertaste. So it kind of makes some sense, that you could start off salty then become bitter.
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No they mean two different things and the two different things they mean are just as valid as their culinary differences Salty means you got your nose bent on something Bitter is when salty Decides to become a permanent visitor
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This is pretty much the same thing I was going to say. Bitterness is generally considered something that has stuck around. You can be salty about something rather quickly. Think of bitterness as an aftertaste that is lingering.
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Not that it makes the terms map any better onto the concepts, but I always understood "salty" as more specifically a sarcastic/snappy way of acting/speaking to others (often due to bitterness), where bitter is more the internal emotion.
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Isn't "sour" also used to mean the same thing as "salty" and "bitter"?
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I remember when I realized that "empty suit" and "stuffed shirt" mean almost the same thing but sound like they should be antonyms.
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