New York Legislator proposes Salt Ban

[Modelworks]

An outright ban is going too far. But reigning in some of the excesses in the industry - the last meal I ate at Applebees must have had about 600% of my recommended daily intake of sodium. I was gagging on the saltiness of the food. I'll never return to a Ruby Tuesdays for the same reason - my meal was saturated in salt, including my vegetables - too salty to eat.

Wouldn't it be better for you to just go up to the manager and complain than let the government create more laws on what you can't do ?

 

[Moonbeam]

I remember buying one of those Campbell sausage gumbo with chicken soup with their new healthy select label with lower sodium to try out the favor as I loved the original version. well, guess what, it suck, I took a scoop and it is fat-free, salt free and also flavor-free. I ran to the kitchen and added some salt and pepper, tasted better but still no match to the original version. This really prove adding salt after the fact doesn't improve as much as people think it does, in term of taste anyway.

Not scientific. You did not account for potential variables like fat content, mono sodium glutamate or other possible changes in the formula.

Make two batches of chicken soup with identical ingredients expert for when the salt is added and blind test a bunch of people.

 

[ebaycj]

The shit state of our food supply? Millions of people are starving around the world and our biggest health problem is over-eating. Our food supply is not shit. Even poor people have such a large array of food choices available to them that it would make the feasts of the roman emperors pale in comparison.

Our problem is a lack of information, education, and concern. People don't know what is good for them, they don't know how to find out what is good for them, and frankly most of them don't give a shit. If you fixed those things, everyone would eat healthy. But, the biggest problem is people don't care, they like the crappy food. And who are we to tell them how to live their lives?

Assumption is the mother of all fuckups, and Americans are doing a whole lot of assuming about their food supply, the corporations who provide it, and the protection provided by federal/state food regulations.

 

[ebaycj]

I say legalize drugs and ban salt!

That's easy.

Just de-schedule all drugs, and add salt to Schedule I.

Then start ticketing everyone in the water (on a saltwater beach) for possession with intent to distribute. Revenue++;

 

[ElFenix]

Wouldn't it be better for you to just go up to the manager and complain than let the government create more laws on what you can't do ?

all that stuff at crapplebees is trucked in from a central commissary and then reheated. bitching to the store manager wouldn't do squat.

 

[yllus]

This is retarded (not that anyone needs that explained to them), but it would be nice to have the nutritional breakdown of each item in a restaurant right on the menu. Fast food places around do it, why not more upscale eateries?