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09-14-2006, 12:29 PM
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Salt & Pepper
Where do these come from? How are they grown?
    
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09-14-2006, 06:00 PM
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Salt is grown from crystals. To begin growing salt, you need to find a salt mine (where lots of sea water has dried) or an ocean. The salt mine is easiest since the growing has been done. But if that's not nearby, then the easiest thing to do is to get some sea water, and dry it out. Before salt mines were built, salt was very valuable because of the amount of work needed to dry salt water and get the salt. And it was the main way to preserve foods. Nowadays we don't think anything of salt.
Pepper comes from a tropical vine. It's the berries, that are picked and dried. Whole pepper is the whole pepper berry dried, and ground pepper is the dried pepper berry that's been ground. It's native to India and other tropical regions, and is the most common seasoning in use.
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09-14-2006, 07:14 PM
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The pepper info was very intresting. Thank you. The salt info made me go "DUH!! I'm an idiot" LOL
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09-14-2006, 07:36 PM
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 But really, salt used to be used as money because of what it took to dry sea water. Nowaways oil has made the mining of salt from deep mines cheap, and it's almost meaningless in price.
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09-15-2006, 07:36 AM
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Yes, I think it's the only seasoning in the store that costs under $1... heck under $3. You'd think that since it's used so much it would cost alot more...but.... for once they're not screwing us on price just because we consume alot of it.
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09-22-2006, 04:21 PM
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Yeah, Sea Salt used to come from collecting sea water and drying it in huge reflectors, which took a long time and a lot of reflectors. It was the original preservative for food, and was hard to produce so supply and demand kept the price up. I'm sure that these days it's produced by boiling the water off using oil, or natural gas as a heat source. It takes a long time to boil off a pot of water, so the cost is probably relative to how much the fuel costs, since sea water is free.
Which leads me to think that when I buy a loaf of bread for a dollar fifty at the grocery store, I'm probably paying $1.25 for the fuel and driver, $0.10 for the bag, and $0.15 for the bread. Basically, the bread is free. Could that be? If so, and thinking strangely, it would mean the a bakery is really nothing more than a delivery service that creates the products to deliver.
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09-22-2006, 04:24 PM
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