This is salt. It's just salt. It's nothing more than salt. I don't care what kind of mood the people who collected it were in. I'm not interested in what country exported it. After all the hubbub, I expected an entirely new experience. Other than having grains that are sized between standard iodized table salt and kosher salt, it's just freakin' salt. And WAY too expensive to be just that. There's nothing special about it at all -- except the price.