The toppings contain sodium benzoate.
By Candice at 19:49:42 on Jun 9, 2007 in Random
You know that something is seriously bad for you in a list of ingredients when the manufacturers have decided that they need to include an excuse for adding it on the packaging, i.e. “sodium benzoate (to preserve freshness)”. This is an even better rule of thumb than “if you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” Especially since I’m not an idiot, and know how to read quite well, thank you very much. Besides… check out Wikipedia’s list of vitamins. How many of those do you think the average moron can pronounce? There would be a lot of people walking around with scurvy, rickets, night-blindness, anemia, dropsy, the grip, scrofula, the vapors, jungle rot, dandy fever, poor man’s gout, housemaid’s knee, climactic boo bow, the staggers, and dum dum fever if everybody took that shit seriously. And I suppose that the illiterate aren’t allowed to eat at all? Is this why all of those Africans are starving?
45 Comment(s)
By Osbourne Black at 22:15:14 on Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
I can see the point you are trying to invoke with this post. My rule of thumb is, if it tastes good eat it and forget about the ingredients.
scrofula - A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. Also called struma.
dropsy - an infectious disease of fishes, characterized by a swollen, spongelike body and protruding scales, caused by a variety of the bacterium Pseudomonas punctata.
My personal favorite: Psychosomatic -
1) Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.
2) Relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind on the body, and the body on the mind.
By Osbourne Black at 22:21:28 on Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
At 22:15 on 09 June 2007, I posted a comment and it didn’t show up. I am not pleased. I really don’t have the time to come back to check to see if my post is here. Check your “Track this conversation” thing and you will see that I did indeed post the comment.
By Osbourne Black at 22:26:23 on Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
Let’s see if this works
I can see the point you are trying to invoke with this post. My rule of thumb is, if it tastes good eat it and forget about the ingredients.
scrofula - A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. Also called struma.
dropsy - an infectious disease of fishes, characterized by a swollen, spongelike body and protruding scales, caused by a variety of the bacterium Pseudomonas punctata.
My personal favorite: Psychosomatic -
1) Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.
2) Relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind on the body, and the body on the mind.
By Osbourne Black at 22:28:40 on Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
I just tried post my comment again and it still didn’t work. Let me try it without the HTML stuff on it and see if that works… Although the comment won’t have the same “punch” as it would it it had the HTML.
By Osbourne Black at 22:30:34 on Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
This is going to be the last time I try this post.
I can see the point you are trying to invoke with this post. My rule of thumb is, if it tastes good eat it and forget about the ingredients.
scrofula - A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. Also called struma.
dropsy - an infectious disease of fishes, characterized by a swollen, spongelike body and protruding scales, caused by a variety of the bacterium Pseudomonas punctata.
My personal favorite: Psychosomatic -
1) Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.
2) Relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind on the body, and the body on the mind.
By Osbourne Black at 22:33:22 on Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
Well that was a good 15+ minutes I could have done something a little more constructive with and I’ll never get those precious minutes back.
By Laurel at 00:01:03 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Dammit Candice! Stop wasting Osbourne Black’s time!
By Candice at 07:04:44 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Akismet doesn’t like him at all, for some reason. Whateverthehell. Anyone trying to do anything constructive with their time ought not to be spending it around these parts, anyway.
I FOUNDED YOUR COMMENTS, K? <3
If it tastes good, eat it — good advice. If I didn’t somehow maintain my weight at 12 pounds while still eating and drinking everything within sight, I might reconsider the wisdom behind it. But until my metabolism kicks in, or I have 17 children, chomp chomp chomp.
Can the word psychosomatic refer to improvements in physical health as well as “symptoms”? As in… “Sean is a hypochondriac — he’s felt sick ever since they installed the new power lines, but his symptoms are entirely psychosomatic” vs. “Jill is a hippy — she feels happier and more energetic since she has started taking homeopathic supplements, but her improvements are entirely psychosomatic.” I’m not quite sure from the mediocre definition I found just now. A quick look at Google didn’t make it entirely clear to me. But a search for “psychosomatic healing” made it pretty durn clear that new-age types are retarded (not that I wasn’t already convinced). “Psychosomatic”, in any conceivable sense, involves believing that ones body has been harmed or helped based on purely imaginary evidence. The term does not relate in any particular way to the question of whether or not the mind is or is not able to directly affect the physical well-being of the body. For the woos to adopt the term as part of the phrase “psychosomatic healing” is basically an outright admission that their healing techniques function in exactly the same way as placebos. And they might come right out and say exactly that — however, a lot of them would go as far as to say that even something like cancer can be cured by thinking happy thoughts. And that’s certainly psychosomething.
Purplemonkeydishwasher. Rambling again? Eh, goodnight.
By Osbourne Black at 07:59:09 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Are you a doctor or do you just play one on the internet?
So why didn’t my comment post? I would rather you have told me that than tell me not to try being constructive around these parts. For the time being, I kind of like these parts. I’ll just have to remember not to post smileys or HTML enabled comments on this antiquated spam filtered site. From now on, I’m going to post like it’s nineteen-ninety nine.
Have a “Penis on a Sunny Day” Sunday.
By Candice at 15:54:15 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Akismet ate your comments, because it thought they looked like spam. False positives are supposed to be rare with Akismet, so who knows what the hell it was thinking. Have people been marking your comments as spam on other sites?
I got rid of the coComment thing, because it can’t be helping. Besides, I have all of those options anyway, since I’ve got the Firefox plugin installed.
No smilies or much HTML is on purpose. I’ve been meaning (for at least a year, so no one should expect anything) to explain all that somewhere below the “Leave a Reply” heading. But meh!
By Osbourne Black at 17:45:59 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Okay, first off, what is Akismet? At first I thought it was the Canadian/Chicago way of spelling kismet. Now I’m beginning to think it is a program you have running on your site.
Truthfully, that coComment thing saved me a lot of time by not having me retype some of my lost posts. I used it to copy and paste my “lost” comments. I will just copy and paste my comment(s) to Wordpad or something before I hit the “Submit Comment” button.
I thought I’ve used HTML on your site before? Maybe I was wrong? One other site I used to visit marked my comments as spam, but only when I posted a link.
By Osbourne Black at 17:47:57 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Let me try a little HTML here and see if it works.
By Osbourne Black at 17:49:53 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
The HTML worked that time, so I don’t know what is going on.
You have a right-fine Sunday night.
By Candice at 17:58:09 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
Akismet is a comment spam plugin for Wordpress that collects spam data from all the sites that use it, and uses the resulting database to make its filtering generally less shitty than Wordpress on its own. It’s never caught anything by mistake on my site except for YOUR comments.
Simple HTML should work. Images and links, maybe not. URLs should be formatted automagically. I dunno. If there are actual settings for this stuff, I haven’t touched them in ages.
I did just upgrade Wordpress five minutes ago, though.
By Candice at 17:59:33 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
P.S. the coComment Firefox plugin is one hell of a lot better than the Wordpress plugin I had running on here, plus it captures your comments from EVERYWHERE and doesn’t directly bugger up my site.
By Osbourne Black at 19:20:39 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
If you want to put that coComment thing back on, be my guest. Like I said, it saved me from retyping a couple of my comments.
As far as images and links and what not, if I get the hankerin’ to post one… I won’t. I don’t want the hassle of having to wonder if my comment will be posted or not.
I think we have run this into the ground. It may be time for you to post a new thread.
By Osbourne Black at 19:23:43 on Jun 10, 2007 | Reply
P.S. “Negativesmart”, is that an oxymoron? (plural oxymora)
By Candice at 15:57:02 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I don’t need to put coComment back. I have it installed in Firefox. It lives on my status bar. It annoyed more people than found it useful, anyway.
Blee! http://www.cocomment.com/tools
My website does not have threads, because I’m old school, and I think it sounds ridiculous, because if I was into that kind of thing, I’d install a message board. But I will add a new post… eventually. Once I find something new to complain about.
I don’t remember what Negativesmart means. Nothing brainy.
By Osbourne Black at 16:39:01 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
That all sounds really swell.
If you don’t post threads, what do you post?
Negativesmart sounds like it means smart, but not that smart.
By Candice at 16:54:39 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I just post… posts.
Smartness is a continuum.
-S < S < +S < ++S (double plus smart)
Or something.
By driftr at 18:14:22 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I thought they mostly posted the explanation for sodium benzoate in the process of trying to provide a mostly natural ingredient list. That’s what I recall seeing more of label wise. Dunno :-\
By Osbourne Black at 20:00:28 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I see you’ve changed the look of Negativesmart. It looks PDN (pretty damn nice.) Can we post links and such now and not have to wait for the spam moderator to check if it’s legitimate?
What is a thread then. I was under the impression that a thread was what you (the blog owner) writes and a post was the comment that we (the blog reader) writes. Maybe I was mislead.
By Osbourne Black at 20:05:46 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
One thing I noticed that’s different about the new layout is, if you skip a space to start a new paragraph it automatically closes the gap. I personally don’t like that part of blog when it does that. I’ll have to take the good with the bad I guess.
By Candice at 20:25:37 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
Oh, ignore the site design right now.
I’m flipping through templates, trying to find one that I don’t hate, and doesn’t screw things up.
Making my own would probably be easier. Bah.
By Candice at 20:26:05 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
Test
Bleah
Bwak
Bleah.
By Osbourne Black at 20:30:27 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
Okay, I’ll sit back and let you do your thing.
Pssst… This lime green template is too bright.
By Candice at 20:39:26 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
BUT IT’S THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS 100% PROPERLY
WHY GOD, WHY!?
By Candice at 20:39:45 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
And I agree. Boo!
By Osbourne Black at 20:59:22 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I just tried posting this (below) on your “This Will Have To Do” post (thread) and my whole screen went white. I closed out your site and when I came back, that post (thread) was gone. What is going on?
“If you like this template, we (your viewing public) are obliged to go along with you.”
“I don’t get what this (Of no interest to anyone) is supposed to do?”
By Candice at 21:13:45 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, turned out everything worked, but adding Widgets broke the whole thing. Since adding Widgets was the entire point of changing the layout, that’s a big problem.
I had to change the entire comments file for this layout. Not being able to post comments on my own site is a bit of an issue. If this comment posts, I’m keeping this layout, I guess (probably not). I haven’t found anything else seriouly wrong with it YET.
By Osbourne Black at 21:42:48 on Jun 11, 2007 | Reply
I’m not really sure what Widgets are. If this layout does work, I say keep it and forget all the other crap.
It’s up to you.
By Candice at 02:19:21 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
Just about everything that’s in the sidebar right now is a Widget, that’s what. I was getting sick of having to edit code every time I wanted to change the sidebar around.
By Osbourne Black at 04:00:16 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
If it makes it easier for you, then keep it as is. I’m a bit computer illiterate when it comes to all the terminology. There are two sidebars (I guess), so I don’t know which one you are talking about.
I don’t understand what this is: “del.icio.us” (I found it on your top left “sidebar”)
As long as when I click “Submit Query” and my comment posts with NO problem what so ever, I’ll be happy.
By Candice at 04:31:41 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
Haha. S’okay… I’m a ginormous nerd. I’m talking about BOTH sidebars. And del.icio.us is wondertastic for finding links, but I decided I didn’t want my del.icio.us links aggregated into blog posts, so I stuck ‘em in the sidebar there.
Stumbleupon and Digg are fun, too, I guess. But I’m too lazy to integrate Stumbleupon, and the whole Digg submission operation is just FAR too much work for me. Having 17 “sumbit this to _____” links is tacky, too. And what the fuck. I don’t WANT anyone submitting my individual posts to ANY of those. Yeah I’m totally off topic now. But I hate using any of the sites I just mentioned and getting linked to a single blog post, image, or thread on a messageboard. Say no to deep links!
Annnnnnnnnd, back about 17 comments… My posts are just posts. I guess some of the comments turn into threads, which is annoying. Really, what I’d rather have would be a message board that automagically made a proper thread for every post.
My website didn’t have comments at all until at least… uh, who knows when. Actually, probably the first archive I’ve got up on the sidebar, because I’ve been using Blogger since then. Most of the comments are probably lost, though. Before that, though, I added all the code for new entries by hand, and there certainly wasn’t any of this fancy “open thread” stuff people are doing now.
Okay, I have no clue what I was meant to be talking about anymore.
I’m gonna go watch South Park and some BS on VH1 now, or something.
By Osbourne Black at 05:02:08 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
Once again, most of that stuff you wrote in your last comment went right over my head. I don’t care about all the ‘whozits’ and ‘whatzits’ about a website. All I care about is when I type something and/or link something, I want that something to post itself when I hit the submit button. I hate it when I click the submit button and my post doesn’t appear.
I don’t think that is too much to ask.
I’m gonna go back to sleep for a couple of hours, or something.
By Candice at 06:04:00 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
It’s hard to fix that stuff without knowing the whozits and whatzits, though. I’ve learned slowly. Every time something breaks and I have to fix it, I learn something new. And since I’ve been on these internets since forever ago (Commodore 64 with a green screen and a 1200 baud modem), I’ve had a lot of shit break by now.
By Osbourne Black at 07:26:06 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
That’s understandable and I applaud your brilliance.
I got my first computer in 1999. As long as it works when I push the “ON” button, I’m happy. I just found out about cutting and pasting in July of 2006. I learned about the basic HTML last month. I’m not a slow learner per se… I guess I just don’t want to, or maybe I don’t care to, learn the ins and outs of the computer. That may be the wrong way to think about the computer because it is the wave of the future. Haha! Like I said, as long as it turns on and does what I want it to do, I’m happy.
I think you’re pulling my leg about owning a Commodore 64. You had to have been 12 yrs old when you got one. According to Wikipedia, they were discontinued in April 1994. I would post that Wikipedia Commodore 64 link here but I’m not sure this comment would show up after I hit Submit Query button.
By Candice at 16:29:06 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
The C64 wasn’t mine, per se, but I did learn how to program me some Basic on that thing.
10 BEEP
20 GOTO 10
By Osbourne Black at 16:38:32 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
10 BEEP
20 GOTO 10
I don’t know what that means.
Beings as you were/are from Canada and they see Monday Night Football on Wednesday night, the C64 was more than likely the standard computer in your high school until 2005. HaHaHa!
By Osbourne Black at 16:40:39 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
P.S. Was there more hits than usual on your site today?
By Candice at 16:54:45 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
It’s hard to tell, I just switched stats tools. Hell with SiteMeter. I’d have to check my raw logs.
That program up there is great for annoying teachers. In Canada. On brand new shiny computers. See, school funding doesn’t work the same way up there. We actually HAVE school funding…
By Osbourne Black at 21:55:00 on Jun 12, 2007 | Reply
Believe me sister. I know all about not having school funding here in the good ol’ USofA… and I don’t want to go into why I know this either.
By John at 22:23:25 on Jun 26, 2007 | Reply
Sodium benzoate naturally accurse in foods such as cranberries apples “organic grown”
They are actually at a higher rate in these foods than what the
FDA allows in processed foods. Do we really
know what your eating ? I don’t think so.
Limits of sodium benzoate in foods is not because of toxicity, but
it will impart a taste that will make some foods unacceptable. This is a
very non-toxic compound and foods containing presevatives are usually much
healthier since harmful microorganism growth is inhibited, oxidation is
checked, and nutrients, natural or added, are saved. Degradation pathways for
benzoic acid (produced in the body from the sodium salt) have been studied
in detail and have shown the harmlessness of this substance: 75-80% is
excreted within 6 hours, and the total dose leaves the body within about 10
hours. It does not cause cancer.
By Candice at 11:05:35 on Jun 27, 2007 | Reply
Nice copypasta, asshat. Fuck off, though. I know you didn’t write that second part, because your spelling of “occurs” in the first part was completely ass-backwards (not to mention, you need to brush up on the differences between your and you’re). Get your retarded ass off of my website. P.S. Ass, ass. Ass. Oh, and I think I’ll say ass again. You ass. Okay, I’m bored. Really, now… Did that entry seem like it was serious to you?
By Candice at 11:17:07 on Jun 27, 2007 | Reply
Haha, and you got here on a search for “pronounce sodium benzoate”. Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re an expert on the subject of that particular chemical and its effects on the body. Yes indeedy.