I am eating an expensive chocolate bar and the wrapper proudly proclaims it's made with sea salt. Is this a marketing gimmick like sun-dried tomatoes? Is sea salt superior in taste to table salt?
It's superior in that table salt is often more processed and more finely ground so the flavor and texture is a bit different.
Also, sun-dried tomatoes are way better than regular tomatoes for putting in sandwiches so not sure what you mean by comparing them.
I can't taste a difference. To me, a dried tomato is a tomato.
wait what are you saying here
that you can't taste the difference between a dried tomato and a tomato that isn't?
They are equally flavorful.
This is the same as saying a grape and a raisin tastes the same
This is insane
What is marketed as sea salt is generally coarser and there is more surface area on the individual salt particles which makes them more delectable to the taste buds.
Plus it tends to have a pleasant crunchiness.
no it isn't. Rock salt is still a huge part of salt production.
Rock salt is sea salt from ancient seas
knew you would say that, but no. Besides the definition being what it is - if we've evaporated it from the sea, sea salt, if we dug it out of a mountain, rock salt - it's not like having become geology doesn't matter at all for the composition
or as a different argument: it was sea salt. It became rock.
I am eating an expensive chocolate bar and the wrapper proudly proclaims it's made with sea salt. Is this a marketing gimmick like sun-dried tomatoes? Is sea salt superior in taste to table salt?
It's superior in that table salt is often more processed and more finely ground so the flavor and texture is a bit different.
Also, sun-dried tomatoes are way better than regular tomatoes for putting in sandwiches so not sure what you mean by comparing them.
I can't taste a difference. To me, a dried tomato is a tomato.
wait what are you saying here
that you can't taste the difference between a dried tomato and a tomato that isn't?
They are equally flavorful.
This is the same as saying a grape and a raisin tastes the same
This is insane
A glass of grape juice and and a glass of raisin juice taste the same.
the idea of salt mines always seemed so crazy to me before I realized that drying seawater to make like, hundreds of tons of salt, would be a real massive pain in the ass too and maybe it honestly isn't that much harder to just dig out chunks of it from a mountain
I am eating an expensive chocolate bar and the wrapper proudly proclaims it's made with sea salt. Is this a marketing gimmick like sun-dried tomatoes? Is sea salt superior in taste to table salt?
It's superior in that table salt is often more processed and more finely ground so the flavor and texture is a bit different.
Also, sun-dried tomatoes are way better than regular tomatoes for putting in sandwiches so not sure what you mean by comparing them.
I can't taste a difference. To me, a dried tomato is a tomato.
wait what are you saying here
that you can't taste the difference between a dried tomato and a tomato that isn't?
They are equally flavorful.
This is the same as saying a grape and a raisin tastes the same
This is insane
A glass of grape juice and and a glass of raisin juice taste the same.
I am eating an expensive chocolate bar and the wrapper proudly proclaims it's made with sea salt. Is this a marketing gimmick like sun-dried tomatoes? Is sea salt superior in taste to table salt?
It's superior in that table salt is often more processed and more finely ground so the flavor and texture is a bit different.
Also, sun-dried tomatoes are way better than regular tomatoes for putting in sandwiches so not sure what you mean by comparing them.
I can't taste a difference. To me, a dried tomato is a tomato.
wait what are you saying here
that you can't taste the difference between a dried tomato and a tomato that isn't?
They are equally flavorful.
This is the same as saying a grape and a raisin tastes the same
This is insane
A glass of grape juice and and a glass of raisin juice taste the same.
Efforts to reboot the SunMaid Raisins woman as a gritty, unstable, grape-picker-on-the-edge who doesn't care about anything, to attract the teen market failed miserably.
I'm watching some old true crime show about a girl who was abducted, and the voiceover says "helicopters were called to aid in the search" and it cut to an AH-1 Cobra with a full rocket loadout.
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Some weird shit I never heard of from, like, Slovakia
the idea of salt mines always seemed so crazy to me before I realized that drying seawater to make like, hundreds of tons of salt, would be a real massive pain in the ass too and maybe it honestly isn't that much harder to just dig out chunks of it from a mountain
it's still kind of weird though
It also really depends on where you live. Growing up near the ocean, sure, rock salt seems dumb. Growing up in middle of a continental mass, rock salt is kind super important.
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the idea of salt mines always seemed so crazy to me before I realized that drying seawater to make like, hundreds of tons of salt, would be a real massive pain in the ass too and maybe it honestly isn't that much harder to just dig out chunks of it from a mountain
it's still kind of weird though
It also really depends on where you live. Growing up near the ocean, sure, rock salt seems dumb. Growing up in middle of a continental mass, rock salt is kind super important.
the idea of salt mines always seemed so crazy to me before I realized that drying seawater to make like, hundreds of tons of salt, would be a real massive pain in the ass too and maybe it honestly isn't that much harder to just dig out chunks of it from a mountain
it's still kind of weird though
It also really depends on where you live. Growing up near the ocean, sure, rock salt seems dumb. Growing up in middle of a continental mass, rock salt is kind super important.
that too
but also like, scale
I mean, I think like well just dry it, but now I'm thinking in terms of a pot, would be big salt pans wouldn't it, and scraping that together ain't trivial, and really I guess my main business devolves quickly into moving piles of salt around on wheelbarrows, whether I've got a mine or salt pans
(although there's loads of different methods of course)
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Due to my recent and nearly crippling Solitairica binge, I've started idly plotting out a game based on factoring polynomials. Some main ideas based on this incredibly garish mockup (just to mess around with potential layouts):
1. the "enemies" either are or produce polynomials into the target (4)
2. sliding stuff up the three "attack" paths (2) performs the corresponding operation on the target (4): addition, subtraction, and division
-- division attacks can fail, the others cost resource
3. you draw cards into your hand (1) and can either
-- slide them directly up an attack path (2)
-- drag them through an operation into the bay (3), where they perform the operation on whatever is stored in the bay
4. you can drag whatever you have stored in the bay (3) up an attack path
5. when you've reduced the target as much as you can, you can clear it by swiping it off the screen
-- this will either generate or cost resource based on how much is left
The blue bits are potential popup menu locations for items/abilities/menus, health etc. go on the left.
I'm thinking maybe each level can have additional polynomials pile up, and there could be multiple storage bays so that you can plan ahead.
Now to never actually get around to coding any of it.
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This is the same as saying a grape and a raisin tastes the same
This is insane
knew you would say that, but no. Besides the definition being what it is - if we've evaporated it from the sea, sea salt, if we dug it out of a mountain, rock salt - it's not like having become geology doesn't matter at all for the composition
or as a different argument: it was sea salt. It became rock.
There's a Salt of Saturn.
It's lead acetate.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
now that's what I'm talking about
50% less sodium because this contains 50% salt is just cheating
but if you can make salt that is more salt than salt is?
well I don't know why we would want that but, cool, anyway
salty
A glass of grape juice and and a glass of raisin juice taste the same.
it's still kind of weird though
That is not correct
hold up
who the fuck makes raisin juice
all i know was that they were a giant failure, marketing-wise
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Fuck Joe Manchin
They released 7 albums. They had a single on the Billboard Hot 100. They had a TV show. They won an Emmy!
The only failure was that the cost of success was literally twice as much as California raisin producers made in increased profits.
"the only failure" is quite the brilliant phrase since it kind of tries to suggest that the important thing is the amount of failures
That...that last part's pretty important.
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Fuck Joe Manchin
don't let the marketing hype get you, the plastics add nothing
the heavy metals though, that's where the flavour lies
Look, we said you'd make more money. We didn't say you'd make enough to cover the money you spent to make that money.
everything went well except this one thing though
The thing that they were designed to do, naturally
It also really depends on where you live. Growing up near the ocean, sure, rock salt seems dumb. Growing up in middle of a continental mass, rock salt is kind super important.
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that too
but also like, scale
I mean, I think like well just dry it, but now I'm thinking in terms of a pot, would be big salt pans wouldn't it, and scraping that together ain't trivial, and really I guess my main business devolves quickly into moving piles of salt around on wheelbarrows, whether I've got a mine or salt pans
(although there's loads of different methods of course)
Wait, didn't he blow up like, that baseball's entire extended family in those baskets?
1. the "enemies" either are or produce polynomials into the target (4)
2. sliding stuff up the three "attack" paths (2) performs the corresponding operation on the target (4): addition, subtraction, and division
-- division attacks can fail, the others cost resource
3. you draw cards into your hand (1) and can either
-- slide them directly up an attack path (2)
-- drag them through an operation into the bay (3), where they perform the operation on whatever is stored in the bay
4. you can drag whatever you have stored in the bay (3) up an attack path
5. when you've reduced the target as much as you can, you can clear it by swiping it off the screen
-- this will either generate or cost resource based on how much is left
The blue bits are potential popup menu locations for items/abilities/menus, health etc. go on the left.
I'm thinking maybe each level can have additional polynomials pile up, and there could be multiple storage bays so that you can plan ahead.
Now to never actually get around to coding any of it.
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1) I can't believe you jumped from publishing to programming. I wish I could do that.
2) You didn't say the name of the webcomic but I read all of Green + Gold and now I want more.
3) I'm reading a webcomic about gay birdmen on that same site....
so that was my monday
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades