First Award

Time for B of C's First Monthly "Head Up My Arse" Award.

The first recipient of the award is Joe Godlewski of Cresaptown, Md. Joe is unhappy with TV chefs using and reccommending so much of "that Kosher Salt". Taking matters into his own hands, Joe is marketing sea salt, blessed by an Episcopalian Priest. Joe said to himself, "I said, 'What the heck's the matter with Christian salt?'"

By next week, his trademarked Blessed Christians Salt will be on the market.

Joe, a retired barber, makes it clear that this is not anti-Semitism at work...he states, "There's no anti-Semitism. I love Jesus Christ and he was a Jew. I'll bet some of his best friends are too. "This is about keeping Christianity in front of the public so that it doesn't die. I want to keep Christianity on the table (hardy har har...pun intended), in the household, however I can do it." If the salt takes off, Godlewski plans an entire line of Christian-branded foods, including rye bread, bagels and pickles.

Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, who is kosher administrator for the Chicago Rabbinical Council, says, marketing Christian salt as an alternative to kosher salt reflects, at best, ignorance about Jewish dietary laws. He said all salt is inherently kosher because it occurs naturally and requires little or no processing. Certified kosher foods are not blessed by rabbis but examined by them to ensure that the food and its processing conform with biblical passages regarding food preparation and consumption.

Way to go Joe, you definitely deserve the award. Except, since it was blessed by an Episcopalian, where does that leave Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists, Lutherans, Holy Rollers, Fundamentally Whatsits, and all those other fine Christian denominations...regards salt, that is. Are they covered (as it were) by this?