What the heck happened to Judeo-Christian?  Is it gone already?  Are the Last Days upon us and I didn’t even notice?

Well, I know which salt to avoid now.

But can I use his salt to Christian my chicken?

god dammit.

for those not inclined to google it, the explanation of why this is so stupid follows:

Kosher salt is Kosher salt because it is USED IN MAKING THINGS KOSHER.

The wide, flat sides stick to meats very well, which allows it to dry out the blood, which according to law, must be drained from all meat for it to be kosher.

This is anti-semitic. I don’t generally throw that term around, but this profound ignorance of the nature of a religious term then being used as marketing trying to get people without any such dietary restrictions to reject it as somehow not fit for consumption is bigoted. They are relying on anti-semites as their marketing pool, and only able to make that sale because they are anti-semites, yeah, it’s anti-semitic.

Either this guy is just this dumb and myopic, or he’s a moneymaking genius

“There’s no anti-Semitism. I love Jesus Christ and he was a Jew”

Later on he was heard to say, “I’m not racist - I like that Will Smith guy!”

I wonder how he picked an epsicopal priest rather than a real fundy to bless the stuff. There will probably be people who won’t buy it because of that.

What the heck happened to Judeo-Christian?

Blessed Christians-Kosher Salt?

I wonder if it’s coarse-grain to substitute for kosher salt, or if you’re just supposed to be able to taste the blessing.

Coming soon to a store near you: Explicitly Christian gefilte fish.

I’m holding out for Muslim communion wafers…

It seems like I say this every few days anymore, but: this is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.

Hey, hey, hey, they already have an anti-kosher salt: Bacon Salt.

Except that Bacon Salt is, in a brilliant bit of marketing, kosher.

Except that Bacon Salt is, in a brilliant bit of marketing, kosher.

Well, that deeply disturbs my faith in something.

Coming soon to a store near you: Explicitly Christian gefilte fish.

Made with artificial crab meat, one hopes.

The sad thing is that they’re going to make money on this, people will buy it

Interesting - and if you asked this guy about gay rights, he’d probably dredge up a confusing passage out of Leviticus so fast that your head would spin seven times.

So, this little bout of stupidity caused me to learn why Kosher salt was Kosher (already wikied). I always thought it was the way it was produced.

So honestly, now knowing that, it becomes even STUPIDER… but I wouldn’t call it antisemitism, really. Just plain old American Christian Center-of-the-World Fuckwittery(tm).

He appears to be so into “Christian” alternatives to all things Jewish that he is contemplating a line of Christian-branded rye bread, bagels and pickles.

We have these already: Pepperidge Farm Swirl Bread Rye, Pepperidge Farm Plain Bagel Minis, and cucumbers.

So, is this stuff usable, or do you just save the holy, blessed salt for those superstitious “throw salt over the shoulder” situations?

I lament that I learned about the Onion too late to really appreciate. If I had just known about it a few years earlier, it could have been brilliant satire, instead of just talking about stuff that is completely possible.

Ooh, this is the best part. Ingredients Corporation of America, the place distributing it? On their front page, it says all their ingredients are Kosher.

Yeah, leftwing fox is right:  kosher salt isn’t sea salt, which will certainly have a different flavor, and texture, than the Kosher stuff.

It’s unlikely to really screw any recipes up, but any value in having kosher salt is totally lost.

It surprises me that a weirdly anti-Semitic product is associated with an Episcopalian priest.

OTOH, I’d kind of like to use this in pagan rituals that use salt for cleansing. And write up a product testimonial that should make Godlewski’s head asplode.

I want to think this guy’s just a huckster. I really do. But there’s too many hateful idiots with persecution complexes out there.

Coming soon:  Christian Matzo, Christian Pastrami, and he’ll buy a bunch of John Deere caps and sell them as Christian yarmulkes…

Christian Salt is also the perfect seasoning for Freedom Fries…

Coming soon:  Christian Matzo…

Oh, Mike, you haven’t heard of Bible Bread, then?

I’m sorry, but baptizing or blessing salt is no substitute for the rite of bris and I for one am not putting uncircumcized salt on my food.

Putting aside the guy’s bigotry and all-around weirdness—how can you make this product and NOT call it “Salt of the Earth”?

Is there some sort of taste difference here, or is it all about a bit of religious bigotry married to plain old ignorance?

I’m going with option C: a good ol’ fashioned inferiority complex.

I wonder how he picked an epsicopal priest rather than a real fundy to bless the stuff.

You need a priest to perform a ‘formal’ blessing and Protestants have no priesthood (per se) but Episcopalians do. Catholics and Orthodox do as well, but your fundies will take good old CoE over those guys any day of the week.

Of course the guy could just be an Episcopalian dumbass. And fine theological points (like the priesthood of the laity and sola scriptura) have never stopped Evangelical bastards from fleecing retirees by selling blessed this and blessed that before.

Never mind salt that’s been blessed by an episcopal priest.  I like to eat sushi, and whenever I go to a sushi restaurant, I always ask for Saba that’s been consecrated by a bishop.

I wonder how long will it be before we see Christian National Authority hot dogs being marketed alongside their more distinguished and older Hebrew counterparts…...

Relating this back to Rush….maybe they should consider making him their spokespundit…...

I’m going to produce some Atheist Garlic Powder, mix it with Christian Salt, put it on my Freedom Fries and see if it explodes.

Not to be outdone by the Jews, the Blessed Christian fundamentalist sect has established a new circumcision rite that bests the parsimonious trimming of the foreskin by loping off the entire preupice. Widespread acceptance of this new Christian Circumcision rite is not expected pending further research into reports of “problems with impaired urinary directionality or targeting,” said Blessed Christian spokesperson I.P Wildly.

“kosher salt isn’t sea salt, which will certainly have a different flavor, and texture, than the Kosher stuff.
“

It’s real subtle differance and most people cannot tell it. Reason why kosher and sea salt is becoming more popular is that both have minerals in them such as iodine. It’s not iodine put in artifically plus seafood has iodine in it naturally.

http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_gourmet_reference.asp lists several gourmet salts.

“This is about keeping Christianity in front of the public so that it doesn’t die. I want to keep Christianity on the table, in the household, however I can do it.”

Oh, dear.  I wonder if he’s considered that not doing his part to make it look like the religion of crazed idiots would be more useful than marketing a product specifically to people who are already so dug in that they’re buying salt because it has a cross on it.

Yes, I have some Bacon Salt within view right now.  The first thing I noticed about it was that it was Kosher! 
Brilliant marketing.

It was a gag gift from a friend, I would not have spent my own money on it.

And I love the name “Wingnut Salt.”

I have a box of kosher salt in my pantry that has a shrimp recipe on it.  Does the fact that there’s a picture of shellfish on my box of kosher salt make it haram?

Here’s what you need to know about this story:

Damon Arney, the head of ICA, who explained that it’s salt blessed by an Episcopal priest, is…JEWISH.

I know this, because his wife is a client of mine, and they are among the children of one of the most influential Jewish families in Memphis.

Hilarious.

I’d like to announce my new line of religion-themed food products, including Zoroastrian Cheez-Its, hot dogs bathed in the blood of the bulls sacrificed to Mithra, and my Zen Twinkies - which have no calories as long as you believe they have no calories.

“The sad thing is that they’re going to make money on this, people will buy it “

There’s an entire phonebook dedicated to Christian-run businesses so that Christians (who, apparently suffer from extreme xenophobia) can give their money to only other christians. It’s called the Shepard’s List, or something like that.  People will buy it. They will absolutely buy it.

“People will buy it. They will absolutely buy it.
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It’s a niche market that is overflowing with crap. Everytime Faux News proclaims that one Christian film made a lot of money it neglects to mention that it was the only such film on the market and was marketed to certain churches who bought most of the copies.

It’s like proclaiming the Bible is the best selling book when most copies are put in hotel rooms and bought by churches and hence go unread.

It’s the same scam that later on results in Ann Coulter books being sold for a buck a year later on they buy most of the copies and then have to get rid of them since they are cluttering up their basements.

I hope this guy never finds out what the little K or U in a circle on food labeling means. He might die of apoplexy.

Or at best, be restricted by his doctor to a no-salt diet.

Bitter Scribe, my bet is the guy already knows *something* about the little K and U symbols, but thinks it’s proof of the Jewish Conspiracy.

Nolo—You might think you’re joking, but some anti-Semitic nutjobs actually have spread rumors about how they constitute a “Jewish tax on food.”

One of my college roommates was home in Kentucky for the summer and went to the grocery store with her mother. Her mother put some item in the cart and remarked to my roommate that she was sorry to buy that product, but she couldn’t find a decent substitute or some such thing like that. My roommate asked what the problem was, and her mother said, “Well, it’s approved by the Ku Klux Klan!” Her mother thought that’s what the K meant. My roommate had to stop laughing long enough to tell her that it meant kosher, not klan.

And I love the name “Wingnut Salt.”

Comrades, Brothers & Sisters, Ladies & Gentlemen: we have a winnah!

Didn’t David Koresh “blessed” his disciples foods with.. ahem… some Koresh “juice” ?

I’m not touching that Christian salt with a 10 feet pole!!! Ewwwwwww!!!!

Bitter Scribe, sadly, I was not joking.  For the very reasons you point out.

My favorite part of the article is that the guy was drinking beer while giving the interview.  Will Christian beer be his next marketing scheme?  You *sure* this an isn’t Onion satire?

It’s kosher salt, not Jewish salt!  You don’t have to be Jewish to eat kosher foods the same way you don’t have to be a vegetarian to eat broccoli.

I’ll only buy it when it shows up on Good Eats. I’m not holding my breath.

Now, to be COMPLETELY sacreligious, it makes sense that if you’re Catholic you’d want a good Christian seasoning to be used with your body and blood of Christ.  I sense marketing synergy here…

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.”

Damon Arney, the head of ICA, who explained that it’s salt blessed by an Episcopal priest, is…JEWISH.

Now hush, or Joe Godlewski will be headed back with century-old libels on how crafty Jews exploit dumb Christians.

In all fairness, to explain the Christian phonebooks (The Shepherd’s Guide), they want to give money to businesses whom they know support causes they agree with.

It’s kind of like how I don’t want to patronize businesses that supported Prop 8.  They don’t want to support businesses who might donate to Planned Parenthood or similar organizations.  It’s not xenophobia - it’s simply looking out for people who share their worldview, and I can’t mock that because I understand it, even if I’m on the opposite side of the fence.