Archive for August, 2010

Eurasian Black Salt

August 29, 2010

I like salt.  I really like salt, all kinds of salt.  Grey sea-salt, mineral salt, pink Himalayan salt, smoked salt…delicious.  But I recently purchased a salt sampler that included something called “Eurasian Black Salt,” and it’s gross.  Really.  It tastes distinctly like salted hard-boiled eggs.  The egg flavor is so strong that I don’t want to use it in any dishes…except maybe on hard-boiled eggs.

Apparently it’s very high in sulfur.  Disgusting.

Just thought I’d share.

The Next Next Generation

August 11, 2010

When the Playstation 3 launched it cost as much as a car, the controllers didn’t have rumble, and the system used power at a rate of 1.21 jigawatts/hour.  And there were no games ready for the system that anybody anywhere cared about.

The XBOX 360 launched as a white box that had no functionality — you even had to pay extra for the motorized tray add-on.  Oh, and 2/3 of all 360′s die horrible deaths from internal melting.  Two of mine did, and I’m not going back for the third.

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