Fire Glass

Here's a fun one; Fire Glass!  This has been pinned and repinned hundreds of times, and while it's not completely untruthful, it does imply that you can just run down to your local home improvement store and pick up some Fire Glass to light up your next party.

The full truth is, Fire Glass is just glass.  It's special (tempered) glass that can take lots of heat, but it's still glass. It doesn't burn.  It's used in combination with gas from pipes (the same as you have in a gas fireplace), and that's where the fire is coming from.  

So as I said, the pin is not an outright lie, but it is a little misleading.  And judging by some of the comments I've seen on these pins, there are plenty of pinners who probably walked into Lowe's or Home Depot or even Walmart and asked "Hey, where do you keep your fire glass?  You know, that glass that you can light on fire and it burns clean?"  

Embarrassing.  That's the inspiration for this blog, really.  Because the things on Pinterest should be interesting and fun and TRUE.