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... Isn't that how you're supposed to eat a baked potato?

You'd think, but I'm the only one in this area I've actually seen doing that. Usually they just kinda' cut it open -- not in half, just... open -- and kinda' mash up part of the inside and then stick stuff on it. Which leaves most of the potato untouched. And then they spend forever making what amounts to impromptu mashed potatoes inside a potato skin and frumple just gets sad.

Heh. I heard recently that our recommended salt intake is actually just as bad for our health as overindulging in salt. The apparent recommended amount should be, like, 2.5 grams a day or so, in terms of sodium.

Last time I paid attention, undershooting too much is actually somewhat worse than overindulging. Low sodium intake is apparently also pretty damn bad for you.

Know a lot of popular dietary stuff rides aiming for low salt really hard, though. Personally, I just try not to go too wild and... ignore most of that. I might listen to a well practiced dietitian, but recommended everything has fluctuated too damn much in my lifetime to give much of it any particular credence. Maybe another decade or two and some goddamn stability in recommendation, preferably coupled with a decoupling of dietary practices from modern media and advertising, and I'd be more willing to listen.

High salt intake is linked to a number of illnesses, including heart disease and stomach cancers. Most people eat way over the recommended intake already, so basically it's not a good idea to create food that's any higher in salt than what we have now. So yeah, we want salt-tolerant crops, but in a way that separates the salty part from the edible part.

I doubt that's an actual problem in the areas this stuff is initially intended to target. Push comes to shove, just... reduce salt intake elsewhere, not that low sodium is particularly good for us, either. I'd rather see 'em get it working before worrying about stuff that might kill people decades from now (as opposed to starvation and whatnot, which will kill them shortly).

And @Siru, good, good. You're on the right path. If you really want fixin's for finger-food style baked potatoes, chop it in half and the use a knife to cut little irrigation paths into each half, then dribble whatever you're adding into the tiny canals. Inundates the potato with flavor and still lets you forgo the fork.

... you have something against the nobility of the unfettered potato, dutchling? CONSUME THE SPUD

Oh yeah, there's definitely the whole "we must become teh powerfuls" line of thought. I merely see that as wrong and mildly hypocritical - and I will condemn any Christian church whose primary motivation is political power.

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Oh, to a certain extent it's not even that. That churches require secular power -- via adherents, and the material resources they represent -- is a simple fact. The denomination that is going to continue to exist without material support is, well. Isn't. And ad-hoc, grass root sort of stuff... doesn't really happen -- spontaneously maintaining doctrinal cohesion without administrative support, so to speak, is basically impossible. Similarly, you need people to print and distribute holy text (bibles) and whatnot, as well as support a class of individuals who are dedicated to establishing and spreading the cult's theological base -- oral tradition really isn't going to last very long, in the grand scheme of things (especially in the face of other options for cultural transmission), and most folks just really don't have the time to maintain a sustainable memetic spread.

The other option is either extinction or extreme mutation (and even with the major material resources that organized religions have had to bear, the latter has happened to a fair degree). Basically, a church is going to act largely the same regardless of their underlying goal -- the one that doesn't act like "we must become teh powerfuls" is simply going to die. Even if that's not really (well, ostensibly, anyway) the point.

Of course, you could say that if avoiding that sort of thing is going to cause them to die, then they should die, but...

... it fecks deliciousness, anyway >_>

Can say I hope the salt potatoes work out. Frumple loves potatoes, and more potatoes is always a good thing.

Overdraft fees are coming for your tukhus! Gird yourself, nenjin! Gird yourself mightily!

Maybe get some ramen?

I... don't remember french grammar being that bad. More sensible than english, anyway. About the least coherent bit was the gendering silliness, but other than that... fairly straightforward, as grammar goes, iirc.

Pandor

... what's Pandor? Not even google is seeming to answer that question. Doesn't seem to be on gamefaqs, either...