Posted on 03/11/2010 10:32:30 AM PST by BigEdLB
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
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Actually, over the past decade the food (foodservice included) industry has aggressively moved away from adding MSG to food. MSG use has dramatically decreased. Even so, you get ten times more glutamate from naturally occurring source than you do from added sources.
Quite the opposite, my friend. Salt helps food to taste better. You can look it up yourself if you want, but in a nutshell, salt acts like a "master key" for unlocking nerve receptors found on our taste buds. It truly is the "eversomuchmoreso" for food! (nod to Homer Price)
I asked a Chinese guy if I could get MSG on my meal.
He laughed, no use no more.
Good point. Salt is vital not only to health, but to preparation of basic foods (esp. bread).
Same grossly ignorant mindset as that deems CO2 a pollutant (it’s PLANT FOOD!). These people don’t understand the basics of sustenance.
I think I’ll immigrate to USSR where I would have more freedom to make my own choices.
I can’t even imagine Mexican foods and sauces w/o salt. Yuck
Glutamate is much more common in the foods you eat every day than you think. It doesn't matter if it's from added sources or from natural sources. Glutamate is glutamate. The average human has about 10 lbs. of glutamate in their body at any given time. About half of that is located in the brain. Your nervous system couldn't function without it. Every study I've ever read on the subject, an I've read many, shows that the average American, consuming an average diet, will get ten times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than from added sources.
The company I work for earns a lot of profit every year from selling MSG replacers to an industry desperate to get MSG off their ingredient deck. The average consumer knows nothing about MSG other than what the chemicalphobes tell them. This unfounded fear has caused the food industry to drop the use of MSG wherever they can in favor of many of the new replacers now available.
The politicians have TOO MUCH POWER!!!
SALT??? Give me a freakin break.
In the next “stimulus/screw us” bill there is a tax on sugar in soft drinks.
A freakin tax on sugar. STOP these Marxists NOW!!! I want the politicians out of my personal life. NOW! Who the hell gave these O'holes the right to tell us what to eat??? They can shove a pound of salt up their arrogant ass. Now, back to your regularly scheduled rant, that is already in progress.
This will never pass!!! No one could be so stupid to enact
a salt Prohibition.
Your rant vindicates this measure.
You need to reduce your salt intake. Your temper and salt may lead to a fatal interaction. Hence the next step.
attend Anger Management therapy sessions.
Why should the modern citizen-subject get angry when the
government is implementing measures to make you healthy.
That is a sign of mental unhealthiness.
The IDIOT who proposed this knows it will not pass...THIS TIME. However, like herpes he will return. This bastard elected official should be removed by impeachment and never allowed to lead again. His nanny state mind-set is contrary to the American way of governance, life and more. His smug liberal attitude of how he knows whats best for us is disgusting and repulsive.
You know pumpkin pie requires a dab of salt. One Thanksgiving I was in a hurry and just plain forgot the dab of salt. You know without that salt that pie looked nice but without a doubt was the most bland pie(despite the fact it was heavily seasoned with pumpkin pie spice and cloves that I have ever cooked.) Now I say this makes this bill anti-pumpkin pie and therefore anti-American. Seriously this fear of salt has caused countless people to become overweight due to iodine deficiency, maybe next he can outlaw salt licks for livestock.
Is there any Mexican food that doesn’t have salt? Dear Mr. Ortiz - Good luck trying this ban in Mexico.
Not to mention it is a staple food item that the human body cannot function without. This bill is kind of like trying to ban restaurants from serving water.
The biochemistry of glutamate is well understood. It's been studied to death. That doesn't stop the chemicalphobes from demonizing it anyway. I'm not sure what you mean by "product of the additives versus the natural version." Are you saying that there might be other ingredients in the food causing your (and others) reaction? Or, are you saying there are "additives" in glutamate added to food vs. those that occur naturally? If it's the latter, salt would be the only additive I'm aware of. I don't think salt is causing any adverse reactions -- outside of the bizarro world of Mayor Bloomberg. If it is the former, then some other ingredient is causing your reaction and not MSG. This is the more likely scenario.
There will always be studies trying to create alarm on issues that have long been put to bed. How else will these folks generate the grant money they need to justify their existence.?
Another thought... what about ingredients that contain salt, are they banned? Can we not get anchovy pizzas or salami sandwiches in New York then?
How about Kosher cooking, which pretty much requires salt for the preparation of red meat dishes. I guess they can kiss the last Jewish delis goodbye in NYC if this passes!
“If the salt from my food ever blows in your face, I’ll give some thought to the analogy; and when my salt causes you an asthma attack, I might give a thought to banning it.”
Sure, close your eyes and pretend there is no connection here, that’s the logical thing to do!
People who don’t like smokers/trans fat/salt/whatever have every right to complain, protest, boycott establishments to pressure them to ban it, etc. The government, however, doesn’t have any right to tell private citizens whether they can allow it on their private property. If you like to believe they do, then go ahead and surrender your freedoms, but I’d like to keep mine, thank you very much.
Seeing morbidly obese people stuffing their faces or homosexuals making out in public causes me mental distress, but I’ll gladly deal with that disturbance rather than be subject to a Nanny State Gestapo.
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