On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:55:16 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:

> 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.
>
> Amen. The thing these morons fail to grasp is that cooking is an
> interplay of chemical processes--if salt is eliminated then quite a lot
> of processes that depend on it have to be eliminated as well.
>
> But politicians are politicians and they'll likely pass it and then
> wonder why they can't get a decent meal in town anymore.

there's no way in hell this passes. ortiz, the man who submitted it, is a
showboater like the fruitcake who submitted the bill in the south carolina
state legislatu

<http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2010/02/17/bill-would-ban-federal-currency-in-sc/>

pay it no mind.

your pal,
blake