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Posted on 03/12/2010 11:33:32 AM PST by Niuhuru
New York’s restaurants could be banned from adding salt to food as part of the city’s latest health crackdown. Politicians are voting on a bill that, if passed, would see restaurateurs fined $1,000 (£660) each time they were caught adding the condiment to food.
But the measure, which is designed to reduce blood pressure, has had the opposite effect among angry chefs who say that without salt customers would stay at home.
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Insanity.
There are certain things one has to cook with salt—or else it will taste like cardboard or toilet tissue —eg. pasta!
New York’s in competition with California to see who can be the bigger nanny. Governor Paterson stated that he wants to tax soda in order to keep the “dangerous substance” out of the hands of children. We’re not dealing with rational people.
Bring it on, New York! Show the world how sick in the head you all are!
The most frightening aspect of this whole story is the fact that no one in my office was outraged about yet another nanny state intrusion into their personal freedoms and choices. To make matters worse, the people I was discussing this with are the few Republicans in my office. So frustrating because they won’t wake up!!!!
We need to start getting this info out there, because there seems to be a disconnect with this stuff.
You vote morons into these positions, why are you suprised that they do moronic things?
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I wholeheartedly endorse this newest effort by the authorities to watch out for our collective health.
“Would you please pass the salt” should become as outdated a phrase as “Can I have a new ashtray, please”.
Salt, it’s like cocaine for food.
Vote for nannies, you get nannies.
Its going to be a tragic shame the day people wake up and realize you’re more free in Guatemala than you are in the United States of America.
>>the people I was discussing this with are the few Republicans in my office
Nannyism is THE bipartisan ideology.
>>you’re more free
But we’re safer.
Freedom of choice and liberty simply have to be made subordinate to our collective health.
Makes sense. Why should salt users have more rights than smokers?
NY has Republicans? Oh yes I forgot, Lazio, that political giant. The party in the state is a joke so it's no surprise they'd have nothing to say about this latest insanity.
OK then, I will bring my own damn dalt shaker!
This is antisemetic. Kosher food requires preparation with salt. No more Pastrami or Corned Beef. Meanwhile the same state senate passed a bill in 2007 requiring Halal meat be served in public schools.
Hello, 911?
Yes,
I’m at a restaurant and I see a man adding salt to his food from his salt shaker...
OK, ma’am, tell us where you are and we’ll send a patrol car out.....
I’m at....
It does, but these idiots don’t survive on facts or reality.
WHO WOULD EVER EAT THERE?
You can still use a salt shaker.
This bill says that the chef can’t use salt in the food preparation, which is idiotic...
Yup, incrementalism.
You believe/buy that?
Soon to be heard in NYC
-Psst, hey buddy, whachuwant - reefer, blow, salt f’your fries?
Ah. So glad to see the calorie Nazis are on the job, New York having no more pressing problems and all...[sarcasm off].
This will not make the food taste the same. Cooking with salt, is not the same as putting salt on top of your food.
Salt is not a "condiment", so much as a necessary part of cooking. It adds flavor to everything we eat. It brings out the flavor of everything we eat.
When I first heard about the next food ban in NYC being salt, I thought they would just remove the salt shakers. When I learned that they were actually going to fine chefs for using salt in their cooking, I couldn't believe it.
Anyone who agrees with this ban, is someone who has never really cooked. One thing I have learned (among many things) on the Food Network, is to season each layer of food in whatever dish you are making. That is, a bit of salt and pepper. It makes a difference in the flavor of the dish. I can't believe any chef would continue to cook if they could not use salt in their preparations.
Who knows. This country is going to collapse from all the social experimentation.
Being from Massachusetts you have the same problems don’t you? Talk about a nanny state...
New York City already has kitchens that prepare salt-free food.
It’s called “hospital food”
Yummy!
George Orwell revisited.
I’m sure this is coming here. We are just chockful of nutty busybody types.
The funny thing is, many restaurants including sub shops and roast beef joints have reduced the amount of salt in many, many dishes, voluntarily.
Pasta and rice are just the most obvious ones. Everything tastes awful without salt. You can add it yourself to something like steak but not to anything that requires cooking as opposed to something like grilling. The medical profession should get on this, as well as the restaurateurs, and state the facts.
If the GOP in NY is a joke, what does that make the GOP in CA? Oh, that’s right. Nonexistant.
I think you’re misreading the issue.
The issue is using salt in preparing a meal. Hence the consumer can salt to taste or sodium requirement.
However your are correct that the next target is the salt shaker on the table.
Felix Ortiz is simply a communist punk from Brooklyn who thinks he know better than you.
You understand as well as I do that adding salt during preparation is not the same as adding salt on the top after a meal has been prepared. The same meals with the same amount of salt added during cooking versus added to the top after, will taste totally different.
The two states are alike, separate the north from the liberal southern parts and suddenly there might be a GOP.
Well, lets hope for a major earthquake that splits off So. Cal and the SF Bay area such that they fall into the ocean. Then we’ll be able to reclaim our state from these Marxist libtards.
Lol In NY I’ll settle for NYC joining Jersey.
I am Italian. I have never salted the pasta water. There is enough salt in the cheese and sauce.
However, I couldnt imagine chinese food without salt.
Right..and soda drinkers. We are getting a soda tax because we are all too fat.
Like I said in some other post..they had better leave my damned cookies alone. If they pass a cookie ban..I am outta here!!
They should ban sugar next. It’s much more harmful than salt.
No, no no..ya drop the food onto you lap where you previously hit it with salt that you hid in your cell phone case. Geeze..we in NY know how to be sneaky...lol They arent gonna ban spot remover, are they? In that case, this wont work.
Dont they cook rice and beans with salt? Wait till he gets a taste of that..lol
Patience, glasshopper, patience.
They gotta do hotdogs first.
First they made me wear a seatbelt, and I said nothing.
Then they came for my soda, and I said nothing.
Then they took away my salt...
None of this is innocent nonsense anymore. Why don’t we ban what is really harmful to our well being - the political class.
All meats should be banned. Don’t try to fool us by offering up one high profile offender like hot dogs as a sacrifice. Then you hypocritically turn around and sell BLTs and hamburgers. The health costs are too high, mister.
I remember when “Chockful of Nuts” referred to a coffee store and brand....
Rather than the country.
Same with fruitcakes. They used to be those ugly looking things at Christmas time but now they’re just politicians from NY.
Since we have become nothing more than sheep we should all be put out to pasture and thank our head shepherd for taking care of us. Baaaaaaaaaa
Have these jamokes ever read any history about the salt trade? Have they ever heard of salt licks for animals? Mammals require at least some salt for survival.
On a hot day, if you sweat too much and drink too much water, you can suffer from salt loss in your body.
The human tongue has four taste regions: sweet, sour, salt, and bitter. There’s a reason why salt is so important.
Like every other food, don’t overdo it. But that cuts both ways. Don’t underdo it, either.
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