[TheForge] Damascus

[Dave Brown]

At 12:35 04/03/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:42:33 -0600, Dave Brown wrote:
>
> >And how about those guys who sell "Pure Iron", that isn't exactly
> >pure, close but not quite pure.?
>
>   "Purity" is a percentage of contamination, usually set by
>consensus.  Since there's only one group making "Pure Iron", they
>set the limit(s).  As an example, you can label chocolate products
>"pure chocolate" if they contain less than EIGHTY PERCENT PARAFFIN.

The point was not whether they could call it pure iron or not.

As for chocolate, this is a new one on me since the Standard of Identity 
for chocolate requires that it have a minimum of 52% cocoa butter fat 
content.  At eighty percent paraffin it can't be called chocolate, 
chocolate flavored maybe, but not chocolate.  It doesn't meet the standard 
of identity.

Dave Brown
<who worked for 24 years for a small choclolate manufacturer>