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I like how some of you are so invested in Kenny shouldn't have gone home. Didn't Frank Bruni say his dish was bad? Horrible even? If someone like Mr. Bruni says the dish is bad, the dish is bad. There was nothing good coming out of the goat cheese dish, and the salad was busy (they dinged Stephen early on for a busy salad).

Chill out. I love Top Chef, but it's a show. It's not 8 people performing open heart surgery to determine best Physician.

And hey, sometimes a strong competitor loses. Sometimes Tiger or Federer don't take home the title. Shit happens. Chill.

I'm reading this while TA'ing a physiology class and cracking up over the horror at the moving frogs. Sorry. I just can't help it.

Anyway, adding salt to cells that are still alive, causes an action potential. As the sodium in the salt travels into the cell membrane (chlorine is pretty useless to us, but algae use it) the accumulation of positive charges from the sodium ions creates an electric field. And eventually a "charge" builds up that is then discharged from the cell via electron transport chain. Resulting in muscle reaction.

Sorry that's really simplified, but may be a little complex still as an explanation.

I just wanted to tag onto ilovebutter. Yes, it's an organochloride, some of which have a cancer linkage, but not all organochlorides do. Sucralose isn't fat soluble, so it passes through the system, without retention. If we're going to point fingers at organochlorides, then many antihistamines and antidepressants are greater dangers given the fact that they are fat soluble.

Minced squab at Tommy Toy's in San Francisco. Haven't been there since, he passed 2 weeks ago. But, damnit. It's my last request. They better bring him back from the dead. It'd be awesome just to see the look on my friend Alana's face when the corpse walks in greeting us by name.