cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30113071
Jimmy Neutron was a dick
Still mostly sodium chloride but I definitely agree with the sentiment.
Steel is mostly iron but it's not called iron
Love the way we usually don't have to declare things like anti-caking agents on ingredients because it's a treatment, not an ingredient. Dried fruit: nothing but good honest fruit. How do we keep fungus away? Well, that's why we dry it, right? So it lasts longer. We also spray the fruit with preservatives but it's a treatment. In the dried fruit there's only fruit.
NaCl (Technical Grade)
Nah just FCC grade
Jimmy may be a dick, but it's nonsense to say he's factually wrong. Impure sodium chloride is still sodium chloride.
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