See, I’m one of today’s 10,000. It isn’t Kosher salt, it is Kosherizing salt!
IOW, what you’re calling kosher salt is just what other people call “salt in large crystals”.
Still makes it funny.
True. To me, calling it “kosher” smacks of hipster foodie snobbishness (though I admit to a soft spot for that vibe).
But that’s what kosher salt means. It’s not hipster, it’s the standard culinary term. If you really want to get upset about food terms, rise up with me as I take arms against hamburger containing no ham.
OK, that was funny!!
Could we try a little harder not to engage the obvious trolls when they visit the troll thread? I know it’s really difficult, but it ruins my enjoyment of the thread.
How about making them their own thread if they are so eager to engage? I’m sure this Politically Correct arolinus character would love a separate pit thread where they could insult the size of our member…ship without the distraction of other trocks being discussed.
Fifty Shags of Grey?
I’d be all for a “guess who the sock is” thread. But that would just bring the attention they are looking for. This really has to be the best place to mock them because here, we’re allowed to use the T and the S words with impunity.
If they find this forum, absent a invite to look herein, then you’re pretty assured that they are a sock, or, perhaps as Sunny D calls them, a TROCK. Keeping them in this thread is a favor to those trying to have an adult conversation in another thread.
Okay, that was well played.
A perfect reference to Shagg’s monochrome existence.
Heh. If you spend any time scrolling through the free ebooks available from Amazon you’ll find a bazillion of these “handsome billionaire falls in love with humble maid/store assistant/stable girl/McDonald’s cashier” Fifty Shades knockoffs. The fact that they’re being given away for free tells you all you need to know about their quality.
Table salt is iodized. Kosher salt is not. The iodine does have a slight detectable taste to it.
There is non-iodized table salt. Though I didn’t know kosher salt wasn’t.
Any recipe worth its salt will specify Kosher Salt for everything.
Not derailing the thread with this further, but my suggestion was to shunt them off into separate BBQ Pit threads when they come in here to explain that they’re not really trolls or socks and that the forum is shit anyway.
I’m sure that would be even more engaging and further keep them out of the adult conversations.
Don’t worry, it would be impossible to derail a thread about how John salts pork butts.
Your point is well taken.
Hurhur hur…“butts”…
Kosher salt: when kosh salt just won’t do!
I have a love/hate relationship with romance novels and this is a good reason why. I can’t begrudge other women their fantasies but they are… really… not like mine. I have zero desire to be with a billionaire werewolf father, like not even in idle fantasy. The only reason I would ever write such a story would be to turn all the tropes on their head somehow. Even though it’s not my subgenre, I might try it just to prove it can be done well. I do enjoy messing around with the standard tropes to see how far I can push them. Billionaire hero has a tragic flaw, but it’s not a sexy one… he’s a genuinely entitled ass. Poor, humble heroine is a manipulative gold-digger. Now, let’s try to make these assholes genuinely sympathetic. The problem is that readers of romance novels of this ilk will typically accept nothing less than 100% Mary Sue from their heroines. The furthest they are willing to go with her character flaw is crippling insecurity and unawareness of how totally amazing she is. The hero can be a literal rapist but god fucking forfend the woman has any flaws whatsoever. Lame.
I have no idea how to market what I write. It’s romance subgenre sci-fi but also kinda literary. Google ‘‘sci-fi romance’’ and you get omg SO MUCH badly written alien sex. I’ve read a lot of this self-published Amazon stuff because I’m trying to figure out where I fit. So far, no luck. It doesn’t really comfort me that this is the stuff that sells. It seems if you write for a niche it is incredibly easy to be successful but there is no real satisfaction in that from where I’m sitting.
Unless you’re Chuck Tingle, god among men.
Maybe instead of the cornfield, we should be sending some of these guys to the salt mines. Kosher salt mines, of course. Some of them might be Jewish!!
We need a Box forum like the Giraffe Boards has. Lock them in. They can’t get out, but we can poke them with sticks through the bars of the cage.