View Single Post
  #51 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
jmcquown[_2_] jmcquown[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 36,804
Default Silly Campbell's Soup "Sea Salt" Shtick...

"isw" > wrote in message
]...
> In article >,
> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>
>> "Ms P" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> > "Dan Abel" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >> In article >,
>> >> notbob > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 2009-09-19, Gregory Morrow >
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > "The famous taste...and less salt! The soup with the famous taste
>> >>> > you
>> >>> > know
>> >>> > and love is healthy, because Campbell adds a naturally flavorful
>> >>> > sea
>> >>> > salt
>> >>> > that helps us use less salt..."
>> >>>
>> >>> Campbell's has degraded the quality of their soups so much, the only
>> >>> "taste" they had left WAS the salt. BTW, all salt is sea salt.
>> >>
>> >> I might argue the last sentence. My definition of "sea salt" is
>> >> unrefined salt made from sea water. Refined salt has had all trace of
>> >> its sea origin removed.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Dan Abel
>> >> Petaluma, California USA
>> >>
>> >
>> > I've never heard of or seen a salt refinery. Where might they be?
>> >
>> > Ms P

>>
>> Lousiana. At least before Hurricane Katrina in 2004.

>
> And Syracuse, NY. and Kansas; probably Texas...
>
> I think that a lot of "salt mine" salt is so pure that it doesn't need
> much done to it.
>
> ISaac




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Island,_Louisiana

Salt domes/salt mines. Pure, mined salt.

The impure salt crystals are rock salt used for putting around ice cream
makers to make the contents freeze. Or for scattering on frozen sidewalks
in the winter to melt ice and snow.

Jill
Jill