On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:51:32 -0400, "Kswck" >
wrote:

>
>"Food Snob" > wrote in message
ups.com...
>> On May 8, 6:31 am, 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?
>>
>
>It is said that the original JC Penney always took out a prospective sales
>manager out for lunch. A manager whom added salt to a dish without first
>tasting it, was never hired. His rationale: Never take things for
>granted-there's always a better way of looking at things.
>

....thus launching j.c. penney to the very pinnacle of the retail food
chain.

your pal,
sam