OYE VEY!!!

[furrbear]

Added to the ever-growing list of you can't make this shit up:

You've heard of kosher salt? Now there's a Christian variety.

Retired barber Joe Godlewski says he was inspired by television chefs who repeatedly recommended kosher salt in recipes.

"I said, 'What the heck's the matter with Christian salt?'" Godlewski said, sipping a beer in the living room of his home in unincorporated Cresaptown, a western Maryland mountain community.

By next week, his trademarked Blessed Christians Salt will be available ... It's sea salt that's been blessed by an Episcopal priest ...

Comments

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

The real joke is the typical wing-nut Christian failure to check into his own assumptions. Kosher salt isn't kosher; salt can't be made kosher. It is inherently pareve. It is called kosher salt because it is the coarseness of salt used to make meat kosher. Really, it's koshering salt.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Ayup.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see more context. If I was a businessman and I wanted to appeal to evangelical households — there's certainly nothing wrong with either — I might do something very similar: market kosher salt as Christian salt blessed by a priest. When speaking to the press, I might expect the journalist to be utterly ignorant about Jewish dietary laws and the process of meat koshering and everything else — so I might just give a glib joke about how I decided to make "Christian salt" to compare with "kosher salt," which the journo then printed as a serious remark.

If he said it in a spirit of sincerity, then I agree, it's appallingly ignorant. But given that I could see it working as a joking aside, I think I should reserve judgment until I find out if the journo was just blisteringly ignorant and didn't recognize that it was a joke.

My opinion on journalists is that most of them are barely sapient. We live in a world where Jon Stewart is our nation's most insightful and incisive media critic. That, by itself, should say volumes about how worthless journalism is nowadays.

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

http://memphi.net/christian-salt.html

[gearjock.livejournal.com]

I must have read too fast, I thought he was from Cretintown, Md

Wonder what could have made me think THAT?

[ursusarctos.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to get the trademark registered for HomoSalt™.
Made from Lot's wife…

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

LOL

I thought one couldn't use ex-wives - they're bitter.

[ui-tomcat.livejournal.com]

Is that blessed by a straight Episcopal priest or a gay one or does the straight one have to be single to appeal to Catholics too?

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Make the gay one a lesbian, just to raise the hysterics a notch.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

I nominate Rev. Susan Russell of All Saints' Church, Pasadena, CA.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

*heh* - All Saints' drives the wing-nuts out here even crazier. ;)

Retired Bishop John S. Spong might be a good one to freak out the fundies too - his books seem to make them froth at the mouth and bleed from the ears. ;)

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

Will it make christians less chewy when you make them into jerky?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

No. Have to use something to tenderize them first. Might I suggest Catholics? Many of them are self-flagellating. ;-)

[pkrat.livejournal.com]

When rubbing salt into a wound, make sure to use Blessed Christians Salt!