"Julia Altshuler" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> I can't take it personally. Some people just do salt their food without
>> tasting it.

> I'm one of them. I like salt. I like the stronger taste of salt when it
> has just been put on the food. Not everyone has my salt habit so I don't
> cook with it, but I do put it on my own portion. Restaurant food is
> usually oversalted so I don't use the shaker there, but in my own home and
> in the homes of friends, I know the food won't have salt so I use the
> shaker. Why should the first bite taste bad?

(laugh!) Funny. Anyway, there are far worse eating habits that would
grate on me ... smacking your lips and chewing with your mouth open,
that would drive me nuts. It's all relative.

nancy