Talk:Spring 2017 Event/@comment-161.202.72.135-20170425175316/@comment-139.192.56.8-20170425180838

Actually, the salt joke has nothing to do with Kancolle at all. Originally it came from the phrase "throwing salt on your wounds" (which if you don't know is really painful), which is a traditional idiom meaning humiliating a defeated foe. In gaming circles "salty" used to refer to the feeling players get after being humiliated upon defeat - a common occurence because many gamers are jerks.

In Kancolle where no such humiliation can take place this idea has evolved a bit. We now say that the salt distilled from our tears is what Tanaka (the creator of Kancolle) and the Abyssals feed on.