What drink do you associate with a hit of salt? Tequila? Neat vodka? A soda water?
Salt and soda water? At least two explanations why locally, it is being served this way: useful way to replenish salt lost through sweating; salt helps reduce the heavily carbonated water.
Salt rimmed neat vodka, from a night out in Mumbai, below.
Bonus question – what food do you associate with a slither of lime? Indeed.