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Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking
lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
I am going to have fun setting up my black market salt dispenseries.
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but if there's no salt for your hash, doesn't that make your clients and servers less secure?
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Salt is white, clearly this is legislation in support of hate crimes.
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Limiting salt levels in foods, rather than an outright ban, might make sense
Instead of having the info available to diners who are concerned about their salt intake and letting them make their own decisions? Yeah, better that the government employees tell us what to do. I know they know best; they've told me so!
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Those problems are related to the fact that no one uses REAL salt anymore. That stuff that Mortons sells is an awful chemical that destroys your arteries. REAL sea salt is GOOD for you.
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Thank god for this bill.
When I was a yound boy I started doing salt. I figured yea its just salt right? Afterwards I moved on to cracked pepper and eventually later in life started experimenting with parsley, basil and oregeno. Before I knew it I was hooked on Thyme and garlic and I lost everything. My wife, my job, my kids, all gone. Even the dog ran away. No you will find me lurking on the school grounds giving away free herbs, knowing that once hooked they will never be the same. So please think of the children and avoid my culinary fate.
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Because - wait for it - the next thing you know, they are going to try and ban a salt weapon too.
Isn't it a requirement of Kosher meats that they be Salted as a part of the preparation? No Salt, no Kosher.
So, this idiot is saying that Jewish people can't have their religious and culturally required diet? Yeah, like THAT's gonna fly in NYC.
(Not Jewish myself, but I love gefilte fish, and lox is my favorite bagel topping. I would be seriously pissed if I couldn't get them anymore.)
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Take your knee-jerk libertarian craziness elsewhere you kook... I for one thank god that we have a government who views its job as to protect us the citizens from the people who would poison us to make a quick buck and I hope they do more to reign in corporate profits over public health. The bottom line is that private industry would happily poison us the public if they were allowed to. Why should the government dictate what can be served in food? Why not lead? It makes it taste sweeter and humans are programmed to enjoy sweet things. There'd be a slick marketing campaign and the food would look it was cooked with real sweeteners but advertise that all important fact that it had "no calories". While this might be considered an extreme, Just look at McDonald's who actually refer to their customers as users. Is it a coincidence that the same term is applied to drug addicts? No it isn't, McDonald's aim is to make a profit, not serve healthy food, who cares if the general populace is obese, diabetic and suffering from liver failure, they don't run the health care business.
Libertarians like you are competing with PETA for the grand prize in crazy.
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Salt has electrolytes.
The banning of the use of dihydrogen monoxide (also known as hydric acid) in the preparation of food would be an excellent admentment to this bill. Yes, I know what dihydrogen monoxide is. In our lab at my previous place of employment we even had a material safety data sheet for it. Check it out here Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division.
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Most dysfunctional legislature... ever!
I beg to differ. I live in California.
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In the words of Representative Ortiz, let them bake cake.
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Most dysfunctional legislature... ever!
I beg to differ. I live in California.
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Note: Illinois already does this.
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