Just do be careful asking for it: "pink salt" is also a common name for meat-curing salts, which may produce yummy bacon-y flavor but you definitely don't want them sprinkled directly on your dinner!

I've also found that the price of Himalayan pink salt goes up in direct proportion to the number of bullshit health claims written on the package. (The one I have claims that it is both the purest salt ever to salt the earth and to have some kind of magical harmonious balance of vitamins and minerals that will cure cancer and make me fart rainbows. Like I said, it was a gift.)

Since I don't have a thyroid, I don't need iodine anymore. However, I switched to Kosher salt many moons ago because I had to go on a low-iodine diet and needed iodine-free salt. Kosher is iodine-free and that made me a happy girl.

I do love my kosher salt. Just remember that if you're following a recipe that calls for table salt, use twice as much kosher salt as table salt.

If you're following a recipe that calls for (table) salt, use half as much as the recipe calls for.

Trufax.

I need new ballet flats. These have caught my eye. Anyone know anything about the Fitzwell brand? I've never heard of them.

I have a tiny bag of black salt that I bought at an Indian grocery store about two years ago. I'm still going through it -- I originally bought it for a vegan omelette recipe, because black salt makes things taste eggy, but I thought the omelette was gross, so now, pretty much the only thing I use it for is matzo brei, which I only make during Passover and only takes a pinch or two of black salt, anyway.

So didja hear Donald Trump is now taking credit for Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate?

Cupcake vodka. I dunno. I really dunno. It's not like cupcake is a flavour. Devil's Food Cake vodka is going to taste like fudgy chocolate, I guess. What will chiffon taste like? Frosting? Also not a flavour.

From the description there, it sounds like the original Cupcake Vodka isn't flavoured, just super-smooth with a decadent mouth feel - I don't really get what that means but I'd be interested in trying it. The 70-proof flavours I don't know about, though the chocolate infused vodkas I've had in the past were delicious.

Eta: the idea of premium vodka being made in Livermore is odd to me.

It seems there's a "subtle tree fruit and citrus" flavour to the original, from the web site. Don't know if that's inherent in the vodka itself, or what it has to do with cupcakes.