Nigari on the rocks...

The latest diet fad sweeping the nation this week is adding a few drops of nigari to your meals.

Witnessed this during a Monday night housewife program J-mum is fond of watching. In a bonding moment I accompanied her to the supermarket in the middle of the program to go buy some.

She bought some for me too and we decided to test out this theory.

Of course I wasn't going to add anything into my food without checking exactly what the hell nigari was - it's basically seawater, and is used as a coagulant in making nigari tofu. Basically you mix it with soymilk and it solidifies to nigari tofu.

The taste is described as bitter, but as you only add a few drops you can't really taste anything. Not that you can taste much of anything added to Diet Coke anyway.

I must admit I'm a bit skeptical about it as a "diet aid" - but I'm going to go with the flow and test it out. Now that I've discovered that it's macrobiotic and so on and won't kill me.

We are conducting our investigation over one month. I guess I'll need to buy a pair of scales to judge whether it's effective or not. Also I'll be keeping on eye on whether all of this potential internal coagulation will result in the runs or not.

Then in a months time I suspect I will be able to prove that these kinds of segments on TV are a waste of time.

Or I will make a killing exporting a new diet wonder aid!

Hypertokyo suggested that I keep a running total on the millions of dollars I am offered everyday - well I was absent from my computer for a couple of days and the mails piled up a little - since last Friday I have been offered 176.5 million dollars! Gosh just for letting people use my bank account!

In other spam news 5 people have offered me the chance to have plumper lips. Not sure why - never had any complaints about them before....