It's alive! Or contains carbon!

[pyat]

velvetpage bought some unrefined salt. Its packaging describes it as "organic."

Organic salt?

Organic salt?

Pardon me, while my inner tech writer fantasizes about hunting down and killing a marketing copywriter.

Comments

[thebitterguy]

While that's true, the term is generally supposed to be used to refer to foodstuffs prepared using specific methods, as opposed to mass produced in factory farms.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know. In the same way that "Galvanic" and "Ultraviolet" and "Magnetic" are applied as adjectives to water.

However, it's especially meaningless in this case, because it's not farmed. It's still being collected in SOME kind of industrial process, and refined to some degree.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, God, yes. Using it to refer to salt is just ludicrous. There's already enough strange "make it more expensive" qualifiers to slap onto that.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Let's go beat up some hippies! We'll take your Smart car, to confuse 'em!