My father wanted me to flatter him by telling him how much I loved him. I said, “I look upon you as salt in my food.”
That didn’t go over too well! He got really angry and banished me.
Since I had no skills, I dressed myself in rags and went looking for menial work. I ended up working as a shepherdess, and one day I put on one of my beautiful dresses, just to remember old times.
A prince came riding by and he fell in love with me. After a little while, we were married and I invited my father to the wedding.
At the wedding breakfast, I wouldn’t allow him to have any salt in his bread or his meat.
He scowled and ate very little. “Is your meat not to your taste?” I asked.
“No, it is tasteless,” he said.
I didn’t need to tell him that salt was the best thing in life.