What about the Bre-X scandal of 1997--when promises of a mountain of gold in Borneo turned out to be a few ore samples salted with gold dust?

FORBES: Gold Rush

The best advice is in the Highway Code - drive with care even if roads have been salted, be prepared for road conditions changing over short distances and take care when overtaking gritters.

BBC: Northern Ireland on amber alert for snow disruption

By the 1800s Russian aristocrats took to carting live sturgeon with them when they traveled, so the fish could be sliced open and their roe salted and served fresh.

FORBES: Caviar Emptor