Assemblyman Wants To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking

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Fun Size

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Ironically, after proposing the legislation, he went out and ordered a hot dog with sauerkraut from a street vendor, only after being assured that the vendor had not added salt to his food.
 
Covar

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At first I thought maybe this was one of those absurd bills that are proposed to make a point about how things are going to far. Then I saw the 'D' next to his name.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Covar said:
At first I thought maybe this was one of those absurd bills that are proposed to make a point about how things are going to far. Then I saw the 'R'' next to his name.
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don't hot link gifs from places you don't have hosting, baer, we're lucky it wasn't goatse :O
 
Calleja

Calleja

.... his reasoning, even when admitting he did no research on the chemistry and use of salt, is that because his father consumed a lot of it he died, so therefor NO ONE should EVER eat salt!?


...can they seriously do that?!
 
sixpackshaker

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Calleja said:
.... his reasoning, even when admitting he did no research on the chemistry and use of salt, is that because his father consumed a lot of it he died, so therefor NO ONE should EVER eat salt!?


...can they seriously do that?!
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It "should" fail easily. I hope it does anyway.
 
figmentPez

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ARGH! The stupid makes my head hurt!

Salt is not evil! (Nor is butter, lard, beef, cheese, eggs, etc.)

Salt blocks the taste of bitter flavors, so it's necessary for making healthy stuff like broccoli taste good. If restaurants end up putting broccoli in a pasturized-processed cheese-like sauce because they can't simply add salt to steamed broccoli, that's going to be much worse for health.

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Fun Size said:
Ironically, after proposing the legislation, he went out and ordered a hot dog with sauerkraut from a street vendor, only after being assured that the vendor had not added salt to his food.
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You think that's a joke, but

“'I think salt should be banned in restaurants. I ask if a dish has salt in it, and if I does, I get something else that doesn’t have salt,' Ortiz tells me, before going on to say that he has eaten, and expects he will continue to eat, among other things, ham, cheese and bread in restaurants, all of which contain salt."
 
Dei

Dei

Salt on Broccoli? Ew. Butter yes, salt no. Even then I love broccoli plain and I think it's just a bad example of good uses of salt!

/derail
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Dei said:
Salt on Broccoli? Ew. Butter yes, salt no. Even then I love broccoli plain and I think it's just a bad example of good uses of salt!

/derail
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Butter? That had better be unsalted butter, or you'll be facing a $1,000 fine.
 
Calleja

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He does realize, also, that there's a SALT INDUSTRY that would pretty much be halved, if not more, in size if it was banned from restaurants?

Oh yeah, that's very good for the economy.
 
figmentPez

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Calleja said:
He does realize, also, that there's a SALT INDUSTRY that would pretty much be halved, if not more, in size if it was banned from restaurants?

Oh yeah, that's very good for the economy.
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I think the death of the restaurant industry would be a greater issue. There are some foods that just can't be made without salt. As the article states, bread will not have the same texture without salt. You can't have cheese, bacon, soy sauce and many other ingredients at all, without salt. Good luck making a tomato sauce without salt.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Calleja said:
He does realize, also, that there's a SALT INDUSTRY that would pretty much be halved, if not more, in size if it was banned from restaurants?

Oh yeah, that's very good for the economy.
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Not to play devil's advocate, but if this did go through, the savings in health care would dwarf any salt industry hardships.
 
figmentPez

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Dave said:
My wife bought a bottle of water. I read the ingredients. One of them? Salt.

http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/dasani/Dasani_Bottled_Water#[COLOR=\"Silver\"]

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[/COLOR]water, magnesium sulfate, potassium chloride, salt
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Unless I'm mistaken three of those ingredients are salts. I wonder if the language of the bill specifically defines salt as sodium chloride, or if it actually applies to all salts.
 
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