On 3/11/2010 12:53 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/...alt-ban-absurd
>
> 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.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/...alt-ban-absurd
>
>
> There's more at the article, but I didn't want to go to jail for arranging
> your monitor's pixels in a way that would cause Fox News to lose millions
> and millions of dollars in revenue.
>
> Anyway... what do you think? I think even most chain restaurant food
> tastes pretty good, like at Chili's, Applebee's, Olive Garden, and I don't
> give a shit if you laugh at me for eating in those restaurants. It tastes
> good, and that's all I care about. I'd hate to go into a place like
> Chili's for their queso dip only to find they had to use cheese that had
> no salt it. What would unsalted cheese taste like?

You do have to admit that the big box industrial restaurants you list do
use immense amounts of salt because it is a really cheap way to make
mediocre food taste better.

That said the government has no business sticking their nose in this.


>
> If the restaurant cannot use salt in any form, that means they can't use
> food they buy from places like Sysco, which already has salt included.
> What about McDonald's? Their ketchup packets have salt in them. Are all
> the McDonald's in New York City going to have to buy unsalted ketchup?
> Unsalted hamburger buns?

Or the big box places can't use the heat and serve food that they
typically use that comes from their factory. The factory would have to
make a special version.

>
> The new bill sounds ridiculous to me.
>
> Damaeus