So... why is pink salt a thing?

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Even more hilarious is that there are expiration dates on salt.

It's a freaking rock ffs

There is sort of an expiration date on uranium.

Should I feel honored that two of my old threads have been dredged up from Zombieville?

Keith Tanner said:

There is sort of an expiration date on uranium.

That's only half right!

Salt is not just salt. It's one of the four staples of cooking any delicious meal (Salt, Fat, Acid, & Heat in which there is also an excellent book and netflix series with the same name). If you go to Japan they have stores with thousands of different kinds of salts and surprise they all have different tastes. Shapes, sizes, trace elements, etc all play various roles in how your taste buds perceive things; but, even with my unrefined heathenous pallette - I can still tell a difference between Mortmans fine grain salt and lets say a pickling salt....

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

They should brand them as snow tires for her and make.them pink. 

 

Everyone knows that when you make a disposable razor pink "for her" you can get double for it. 

You can also put the same body wash or shampoo in a dark, angular looking bottle and call it "for men" and get double, too.

The Himalayan pink salt soap has me confused.  If it has salt, how is it "hydrating"?  Salt pulls the moisture out of things, including bacteria and other little bugs.  That is why salt is so important, it and honey were the only preservatives we had before the discovery of refrigeration.

I know this is a canoe zombie thread, but it was actually going through my mind the other day. I was messing around with synthesizers and signal paths and filters etc. And in those cases, it's the "bad" parts of the signal that's interesting. Want a pure sine wave? Get a flute. Want something with some meat to it? Mix in a sawtooth, ram it through some filters, detune one of the oscillators and then overdrive the amplifier. You have now messed up that nice clean signal in fun ways.

Salt's the same way. Sure, it's NaCl. But it's the other stuff that makes it interesting.

Keith Tanner said:

Salt's the same way. Sure, it's NaCl. But it's the other stuff that makes it interesting.

I think I know what you mean.  Take alcohol for instance.  Nearly pure distilled grain alcohol is fine, but not terribly interesting.  The good stuff is made according to old family recipes and might be aged in old oak barrels or contain bits of solder from the discarded radiator of Uncle Cletus' old pick-em-up truck.

And that spammer's been deactivated. 

I hear canoeing in the Himalayas is lovely this time of year.

My adult daughter was staying with us when she was between jobs and such and went and bought some fancy salt.  Now, I will admit that there are seasoned salts that do make a big difference but that is not relevant here. 

She was proud of this new sea salt she had just bought and was sprinkling it on her food on the plate in front of her.  I asked to see it and looked at the label.  I don't know what she paid for it but it was a lot more than the Morton's stuff.  Whatever.  I look at the bottle and read the label.  Turn it around to see the back of the label and the company name is there with their address.  Somewhere in northern Utah, I don't recall, SLC?, Ogden?, ??.   Being Dad, I inform her that they took her hard earned money and sold her lake salt, not sea salt.  "See, the company is from the Salt LAKE area of Utah.  You bought LAKE salt, not SEA salt".   She was not impressed.  Dad humor FTW.

Redmond, I'll bet. It IS sea salt, the sea just left a long time ago. It's mined.

Morton's comes from the Great Salt Lake, you can see them harvesting it when you drive along the interstate. Literally picking it up with loaders.

Even zombies taste better with salt.

MazdaFace said:

Pink salt going on the wagyu beef patties tonight. 

Are we just going to ignore the tiny feet in the sink?

In reply to Appleseed :

For over two years now.

Well, I'll be dipped...

I was more interested in it's culinary applications. 

"Toxins"!  Bingo

Sorry, I will stick to my iodized salt, what with all of the radiation leaks occurring around the world (maybe soon to be Ukraine) and growing up during the open air nuke testing that sent plumbs of radioactive Iodine-125 drifting across the world and also since I don't know where to buy Iodine pills. 

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