On 3/11/2010 3:22 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Mar 11, 12:53 pm, > wrote:
>> http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/...d-new-york-sal...
>>
>> 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/...d-new-york-sal...
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> The new bill sounds ridiculous to me.
>>
>> Damaeus
>
> Before voting on the bill, the legislature should eat a meal prepared
> with
> no salt, and be aware that's what they're eating.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

You need to consider that the members of most government bodies have no
common sense.

Promoting awareness etc is a good thing (especially since a typical big
box industrial meal is 19x the recommended daily sodium intake),
outright bans are just silly.