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The New Hotness

  • Eco-Friendly Firewood?

    These seem to be ordinary birch logs, cut into short chunks, sporting a top crosscut loaded with fire starter:

    Light-n-Go Bonfire Log - stacked
    Light-n-Go Bonfire Log – stacked

    The front of the label makes them seem wonderfully eco-friendly, but the fine print on the back shows that they’re from the Old World:

    Light-n-Go Bonfire Log - origin label
    Light-n-Go Bonfire Log – origin label

    There’s surely a universe where shipping heat-treated firewood from Estonia to Poughkeepsie makes perfect sense. I just didn’t realize I was living in it.