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Baking Soda is amazing
Posted by offendedblogger • 1/11/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
(this is a non-religious discussion so please, check your faith at the door!) 
What other product qualifies as both something to bake with, clean with and clear up acne with?
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Not sure, but fat (as in oils) is both an ingredient and a cooking medium. -
Sea salt makes a nice exfoiliator as well as adding it to certain recipes.
(It also wards off the devil)-
Its also good for making a nice salt crust in which to bake a fish.
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I bet it removes acne too. -
Also dead skin on your feet
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and it goes well with the tequila and citrus mentioned down the page.
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It also works in the Neti pot you are going to buy.
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Just deciding what salt to get to go with the Baking Soda
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Lemon Juice comes to mind-
Yes! It works well for all 3 AND it works to give highlights to your hair.
I am stocking lots of baking soda and lemon juice in my underground bunker. -
After squeezing the juice, run hot water down your kitchen sink drain for a minute or two and then shove in the lemon carcasses and run the disposal. Do not do this if you don;t have a disposal.
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I had a baby sitter when I was little who used a bit of Crest toothpaste on acne at bed time and swore by it. Crest in food tho... not so good.
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Heh, well 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
Oh, wait, how do you know it's not so good in food?? :o
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Water-
:-D That was a good one!
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I believe sperm ticks all three boxes you mentioned. (Thats what I tell women anyway.)-
and its a mouthwash
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ewww just eww
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I like air-
I am actually a big fan of air.
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Especially mountain air.
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Hmm mountain air blowing the hair from ones face.....
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Well, exactly. And air is necessary for cooking. At leas oxygen is.
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and it definitely clears acne
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Sea breeze fix sinus problems!
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I need a sea breeze immediately!
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Lots of sea breeze here
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Curse you
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Claire: Have you tried saline sinus irrigation? It scared me but it knocked out my last sinus/head cold thing licketysplit. (not sure how fast that is in metric)
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I'm sooo glad Claire doesn't realize that this thread is really a distraction from the Where have you been? one where we're talking about her behind her back.
Ugh, did I just say that outloud? -
They just sound very icky and nasty!
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I shall look into neti pots at in more detail.
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Please do so, they are a goodness.
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I'm with Thomas on the sea breeze issue. It's absolutely essential. -
Thomas should start bottling up that fine Norwegian salty sea air and sell it via his site. Maybe tape a ziplock bag full to every calendar he sells.
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Olive oil is a great moisturizing cleanser. I don't know that it will clear acne, but it supposedly does not cause it, despite being an oil.-
Yes and JESUS would approve!!!
Oh sorry, non-religious thread. Oops. -
I'm pretty sure using Olive Oil like that would seriously piss off Popeye.
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Whatever happened to just plain witch hazel? You can by a barrel for what, $5.00?
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Exactly! And it's good for so many things.
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Like what exactly? tell me more about it.
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But can you cook with it? -
The seeds are edible
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I don't know about acne, but vinegar works for cleaning and cooking.
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Vinegar rocks for making chicken bones turn rubbery
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I have to ask: why would you want rubber chicken bones?
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Because you can then take a rubberized wishbone, and put it inside a narrow necked wine bottle in one piece, let it dry, and then make people wonder how you got it in there without breaking it. I thought that was obvious.
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And stings.
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trout: You can cook with it, and if you rub it all over your body like soap, no one will get close enough to notice the acne.
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Or salmon. Probably any fish would do.
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Salmon is better, it is non-comedogenic.
Now run look THAT big word up! Ha! -
Who knew that stand-up caused zits?
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Probably should stick to raw fishes. The stickiness of salmon teriyaki could make it worse.
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Yumm!! Now I am craving salmon teriyaki.
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I'm making chicken stir fry in a thai sweet chili sauce - inspired by crpitt earlier. I'd try it on acne if I had any at the moment.
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I like to inspire people, its a gift
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the chicken is marinading as we type
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Disclaimer: If it tastes like crap thats your fault not mine
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Is Baking Soda the same as Baking Powder?
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Nope. Alton Brown splained it once.
Both baking soda and baking powder are leavening agents, which means they are added to baked goods before cooking to produce carbon dioxide and cause them to 'rise'. Baking powder contains baking soda, but the two substances are used under different conditions.
Baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate. When baking soda is combined with moisture and an acidic ingredient (e.g., yogurt, chocolate, buttermilk, honey), the resulting chemical reaction produces bubbles of carbon dioxide that expand under oven temperatures, causing baked goods to rise. The reaction begins immediately upon mixing the ingredients, so you need to bake recipes which call for baking soda immediately, or else they will fall flat!
Baking powder contains sodium bicarbonate, but it includes the acidifying agent already (cream of tartar), and also a drying agent (usually starch). Baking powder is available as single-acting baking powder and as double-acting baking powder. Single-acting powders are activated by moisture, so you must bake recipes which include this product immediately after mixing. Double-acting powders react in two phases and can stand for a while before baking. With double-acting powder, some gas is released at room temperature when the powder is added to dough, but the majority of the gas is released after the temperature of the dough increases in the oven
How that affects Acne is unclear. -
Recipes in the states often call for both. That was sometimes a problem in Germany, where I only found baking powder. Is that perhaps the case in Britain too? (Well, I never thought to ask for sodium bicarbonate, so maybe I missed something.)
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I had never actually seen a recipe that called for baking soda before, but I grew up on a biscuit recipe that called for baking powder so I assumed the recipe had a mistake and used power instead. Was a fiasco - the whoopie pies not come out right at all.
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Olive Oil
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The Italians believe if you rub olive oil on your chest it makes your breasts large.
I'm gonna go try it, I'll be right back. -
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*puts down the olive oil* -
My God it works! They are huge now!!
(Oops ignore the ^^ religious word, sorry, I keep forgetting this is a non-religious thread.) -
Go you! Um... what happens if you use EVO?
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Orange peel.
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Orange Peel, the thick rinded kind, is great for getting stickiness from labels and price tags off gass.
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Wow, I just ate an orange.
Must be divine intervention -
good for scurvy
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it smells nice
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Habanero peppers.
They work great to clean the limescale from my internal plumbing. It also makes me sweat and clears my pores.
Oh, and great on all Mexican dishes served at my local taco truck.-
Internal plumbing.....hehehehehe
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Jesus sounds like a handy guy in your neighborhood. Does he have an opinion on the cost of tortillas vis a vis the consumption of corn by the ethanol industry? He sounds like he'd make a great guest blogger.
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Bwahahaha...Jesus rocks. He makes a mean taco and you should see my yard!! It's like a golf course. He taught me the greatest dirty words in Spanish, too.
Hey... this is a non-religious thread so we can't talk about Jesus. -
He should have a code name then. Mr. Bell.... yes nobody will crack that code name.
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Tequila does the same thing as habenero peppers, to me at least.
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To me it does the total opposite. Comes out the wrong way -_-
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A good friend of mine is not allowed Tequila....
Two nights of heavy tequila consumption in her life; two children conceived those nights.
Vodka Jello shots are all we allow her now. -
Tell your friend that I hear down in Tijuana they give 12 free condoms with every bottle of Tequila. Glow-in-the-dark ribbed ones too, if you ask.
Not that I've ever been there, mind you.. -
I think she totally misunderstood that it was a REAL worm they meant.
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Hahaha!
Ew. Who eats the worm anyway?? -
not me!
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I think I have? It wasn't there when the bottle was empty.
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I'm daring in my dietary intake but never tried the worm.
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I have a tequila sucker with a worm in it that I've had since 1987. I wonder if it's still potent?
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sounds like a waste of some good tequila.
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Once I didn't have any lemon and had to use goat sausage.
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a little salt, a little goat sausage, and tequila. That drink needs a name!
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I think we call it a cowboy cocksucker here. I can't remember.
Oh wait, that one has rocky mountain oysters in it, not goat sausage. Duh! -
Goat sausage and tequila? ummmm
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And a little salt, forgot that.
Lets just say that it wasn't smelling too good after a couple of shots.-
Yes, but after a couple shots, you probably didn't care
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Thats is actually making me feel a bit sick!
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Hmm, regurgitated tequila.
Not good in food, doesn't clean anything (you have to clean it up in fact), it *could* help clear acne, but who would try that?! -
It keeps yah slim!
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Tequila is high in alcohol which kills things, besides the liver, so it probably could keep acne at bay and serve as a cleanser.-
Ooh you just reminded me! Lavender, Chamomile, Jasmine, Ginger, Ylang-Ylang and so many other flowers are great for acne (and other skin treatments), cooking and cleaning the toilet (they make it smell good)!
They make great tea, too. -
Does ginger produce a flower? Its a rhizome isn't it?
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Potatoes cure pimples
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Do you put the potato under your pillow or what?
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you have or are coming up with acne, and you want to get rif of it fast take out a potato, peal it, and cut a slice out. then, get a band-aid and band-aid the potato slice to the area, sleep with it on over night, you should see results the next day. NOTE: DO NOT COOK!!!!"
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Either England has tiny potatoes or they have HUGE bandaids. Which is it? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Picture or it didn't happen!
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Shelby from Missouri said so!
www.earthclinic.com/CURES/acne.html
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Offendedblogger said: "The Italians believe if you rub olive oil on your chest it makes your breasts large. I'm gonna go try it, I'll be right back"
If olive oil could do that, it would be well documented. But hey, if you get results let us know, I might try anyway!-
if you rub toilet paper on your butt it can grow--it worked on my ex-wife
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Toothpaste cleans your teeth AND reduces redness from acne =D -
Don't laugh but plain yogurt is a great face mask-
Yes so is egg white.
In fact, egg white qualifes as a food, acne treatment and I am not sure but I have heard it will strip paint off a car in the sun.
That could be an urban legend though, so don't try it.
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Nah offended its true trust me I live in Florida and had seen my neighbors car after a egging.. it was a Saturday he did not wake up until 2 pm.. 90 degree weather and eggs and a car dont mix
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Oatmeal is great too..
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I was sick all last week and lived on oatmeal.
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should have put some on your face you still look kinda blue
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i like to exfoliate with the tears of small children....
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And they moisturize, too!
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and its easy to make kids cry.
Example:
Me:Did you do that picture?
Kid: yes.
Me:It sucks!
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lol Crpitt, I believe you were the inspiration for Cliff's devil woman.
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I know! And she looks so sweet and innocent in that picture!
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Tho should not associate thee with Cliff!
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I still think nothing has baking soda beat.
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Duct Tape. Duct Tape beats everything.
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Duct tape on toast?
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Well, and you can beat just about anything with duct tape, too.
"The morale will continue until the beatings improve!" -
Don't underestimate duct tape, it can actually be used to attract food, if you are hungry enough.
Use it as a fly strip or even a mouse trap if you know how to do it right... -
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That is so cool!! Duct tape is incredible. It almost deserves its own thread!
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Forget baking soda. The staying power of this thread is amazing.
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Yes, lets get back to Jesus.
Did you know he was a Jewish scab carpenter who tried to bust up the union??? -
All praise Baking Soda!
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I worship baking soda!
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I don't like it in toothpaste though. It tastes funny. Especially if it's been in the refrigerator for a few weeks sucking up onion flavor. Ick!!
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crpitt: Be careful! That arm with that hammer on the box is dangerous symbolism.
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All hail it's bicarbonate goodness!
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Straight baking soda as toothpaste works for me sometimes. (You know, when you realize you forgot to buy any real toothpaste.)
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Ah yes, and let's not forget indigestion. It works as an antacid.
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baking soda and vinegar mixed can be used as a gentle drain cleaner on older pipes that should not be exposed to the harsh bases like Liquid Plumber.
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Vinegar cleans my espresso/coffee machine quite nicely too.
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The other day at work I let our coffee pot carafe sit overnight with water and some dish soap in hopes of getting the bottom nice and clean. Someone poured the thing in the coffee maker the next morning and we had sudsy coffee.
Took about 10 run throughs with clean water before we could use it again.
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aloe vera, neem, barley, tulsi, marijuana!!-
Hey now, this is a non-religious thread none of that marijuana-cult worship crap allowed.
Well, heh, not unless you brought enough for all of us!
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Urine
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Uh, you cook with urine? Stand wayyyy over there ok? Thanks!
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People used to do all kinds of stuff with urine. Look at the history of the Nitrates industry.
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we had a guy called moraji desai in India who used to promote drinking the first piss of the day, he lived to 90+ which he claimed was due to drinking Urine ofcourse
in a school, some of the kids had scribbiled moraji desais bar on the toilet walls
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Baking soda puts out FIRES too!! My god, what does this stuff not do?
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I usually use salt for that. Thanks for the tip.
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Nice thing about putting out fire with salt and baking soda is you can use it over and over. Great for recycling.
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For swimming pools ~ Baking soda is exactly the same thing as 'Alkalinity Increaser', 'Alk-Up' or whatever. The food grade is ground a little finer than the industrial grade used in pools. But the chemical is identical.
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I just called my aunt for ideas on baking soda and she mentioned that you can put a teaspoon in a pot of spaghetti sauce if you need to serve it to someone prone to heart burn. The baking soda will neutralize much of the acid. She said the neutralization process adds salt so you want to use less salt if you try this.
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Yep. And for heartburn, a half teaspoon of baking soda in water is a great cure. Beware the subsequent belching though!
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Oh! I completely forgot that trick. My mom used to do that for my dad, but then things went downhill and she substituted something a little more nefarious than baking soda hehe...
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It does everything. I would marry baking soda, if there weren't a law against it.
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If we allow you to marry baking soda it will lead to people marrying scouring powder or sea salt... it would be madness.
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Thanks Unfettered, you sure know how to turn a fun thread into a serious political debate!! I am not coming to your wedding when you marry baking soda now!
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I refuse to accept Baking Soda as my savior.
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