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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."

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  1. Re:This is just grandstanding. by wrfelts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...there's no reason to get all worked up about it as it has 0 chance of ever passing.

    Not been keeping up with the current healthcare insurance bill, have we?

  2. Re:This just in! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There ought to be an Internet License.

    You wouldn't be able to pass the vision test.

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
  3. Re:This just in! by dbIII · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    he was arguably the least effective president in the last 100 years

    Your blind tribalism is showing. If you ignore which team you want to cheer for you'll see there were far worse on both teams. Ford and Bush Jnr probably tie for last place, a lot of people have fond memories for Reagan for some unknown reason but he's the guy that managed to restart the cold war when the USSR was already falling apart, made us fear the bomb again and nearly destroyed the economy doing it (plus his massive ransom paid to Iranian terrorists and the Lebanon "show the flag" debacle convinced all the potential terrorists in the world that the USA was weak). Nixon was even hated by his own party and considered an outsider so couldn't get much done. There is a long list of failures before you get to the guy that was voted out becuase he let the Shah go to a US hospital. Even LBJ should get a mention for committing a lot of US troops in a pointless move to help with French colonialism.