I saw this over at Feministe and just had to share.
Retired barber Joe Godlewski says that when television chefs recommended kosher salt in recipes, he wondered, "What the heck’s the matter with Christian salt?"
By next week, his trademarked Blessed Christians Salt will be available from seasonings manufacturer Ingredients Corporation of America. It’s sea salt that’s been blessed by an Episcopal priest.
The company’s president hopes to market the salt through Christian bookstores.
Kosher salt, BTW, is not Jewish.
I’m sorry, but I have no intention of throwing money at such a marketing scheme. Sea salt is sea salt is sea salt, and I don’t care how much hocus-pocus mumbo-jumbo some dude in a weird collar utters over it. It’s still just salt. Salt can be cleaned or purified or whatever at the processing plant, NOT by spouting spells and incantations over it. Sheesh. Heck, if the bookstore is run by a hardcore fundie, they probably wouldn’t stock a product blessed by an Episcopalian anyway. hahahahaha
On the other hand, any doofus snatching it up at the Christian book store probably deserves to be ripped off like that. “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
Haha. I actually had blessed salt for awhile. My husband and I were supposed to use it bless our house against evil spirits. Instead we brined and smoked some delicious almonds. Blessed salt doesn’t keep them from burning though
Kosher salt is usually recommended due to the fact that it generally has smaller grain sizes and will distribute more quickly and evenly through food.
Mmm smoked almonds…
So would that mean “atheist salt” is pepper?