Effervescent Brain Salt

The best thing about effervescent brain salt is that it's not immediately clear whether it's salt to make effervescent brains even more delicious, or salt to give you an effervescent brain, or effervescent salt for brains. Also, it appears to come in a Tabasco bottle, and EVERYTHING THAT COMES IN A TABASCO BOTTLE IS ALWAYS AWESOME.

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vtblues

Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!
arikol

One more possibility:
This could be salt extracted from effervescent brains, hence effervescent brain salt!
- Zadaz
  
  I was also thinking that it was salt taken from brains. Thinking salt.
irksome

I can’t decide between an irreverent zombie joke or a reference to lithium and BiPolar disorder.
Anonymous

Over Brainwork BAD!
millrick

perfect for seasoning Canned Unicorn Meatâ„¢
Anonymous

It is well known among antique bottle collectors that this product was part of a late 19th century attempt to rid the the Earth of pesky Englishmen by alien brain eating zombies from the fifth dimension. It was a condiment to make their stodgy proper brains more palatable to the corpulent epicurean creatures. Unfortunately the effervescence made their noses tickle sending them into paroxysms of laughter which unfortunately is lethal to alien brain eating zombies from the fifth dimension. Thus England triumphed once again against the silly forces of adversity!
Griff Kinsey
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ctgreybeard

My wife’s paternal grandmother used to prescribe AlkaSeltzer for anything at all that ailed you. I would say that qualifies as “Effervescent Brain Salt” …
TheCrawNotTheCraw

What Roman zombies got paid in: Brain Salt.
Stefan Jones

Pfft. NO RADIUM. Stuff is useless.
johnnyaction

I like stuff like this and I would <3 to have printed labels like this to stick on sauce bottles.
Ultan

Tabasco’s bottle shape comes from Edmund McIlhenny’s use of discarded cologne bottles for the early batches distributed to family and friends. He ordered new bottles of the same shape when he started selling Tabasco. The original shape had a concave profile above the shoulder. See http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco_history/faqs.cfm#faq-6 for a picture.
Anonymous

Actually it sort of makes sense since drugs like Adderall are mixtures of amphetamine salts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
Gregory Goldmacher

Or perhaps it’s a combination of a brain with an ion of opposite charge… OK, that’s way too nerdy.
Anonymous

This is what the FDA was founded to fight, baseless claims.

Now thanks to corporate deregulation and globalization, you too can look forward to melamine in your infant’s formula and cigarettes that are “cures” for herpes’ sores.

Why subject things to long and expensive efficacy trials, its so much cheaper, well more profitable, to put some dirt in solution and sell it as a “Cure-All,” since “Joe heard that his aunt Selma was cured, whatever that means anyway, by eating some everyday.”

Next comes the “Promise of eternal life through a belief in [insert name of deity].”
querent

“Excessive Study Mania.”

heh.
Marcel

No zombie would leave the grave without it.
- enkiv2
  
  Funny thing about this: historically, salt has been considered one of the few things that universally harms the undead (zombies being particularly sensitive to it — traditional ways to destroy zombies included filling their mouths with salt, throwing them into a body of salt water, and enclosing them in a circle of spilled salt, whereas on vampires salt would just affect them the way it does slugs)
foobar

Smelling salt, perhaps?

So this is how Pride and Prejudice and Zombies happened.
Anonymous

http://tinyurl.com/2d5tezs
Anonymous

Everything that comes in a Tobasco bottle IS awesome. Except for that weird spicy vinegar stuff. Ewww.