jaminjim
Veteran Expediter
With all the nonsense being proposed in the Local, State, and Federal Governments, it's nice to see a Politician doing the work we actually sent them there to do. What, with crushing deficits and unemployment at close to double digits finally common sense.
FOXNews.com - Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd'
Oh, but wait! How about this for a headline: New York Assembly To Ban Salt.
Think I'm making this up? That's okay. For a minute, I thought MSNBC, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News and FOX News were making it up, too (and FOX probably was).
But no, this is a real thing. Brooklyn Democrat Felix Ortiz has actually introduced a bill before the New York State Assembly banning restaurants from using salt in food preparation, and proposing a $1000 fine for any violation. The vital language of the bill reads: ""No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food."
While I originally thought this had to just be some kind of stunt by a small political animal looking to get his name in the papers, Ortiz actually appears serious about this. The New York Daily News quoted him as saying: "It's time for us to take a giant step. We need to talk about two ingredients of salt: health care costs and deaths."
I would rather talk about the only ingredient in salt: salt. And maybe about the way it is used in real restaurants (read: those where you don't order your cheeseburgers through a giant clown head), which is sparingly. Pretty much every preparation, every recipe, every dish in a professional kitchen has salt in it--a reasonable amount of salt, in most cases. The perfect amount in the best. And to ban the use of salt outright would be tantamount to saying that every restaurant meal served in the state of New York, from now until forever, must taste like the salisbury steak that you stole off Uncle Jimmy's lunch tray when you visited him in the hospital after his hernia surgery. It's like saying everything must taste like grandma's nursing home dinner or those special meals prepared for invalids recovering from triple-bypass surgery. It would be the death knell for all fast food operations (not the worst thing in the world), but also the end of Manhattan as one of the dining capitals of the world. The tourist economy would collapse. The restaurants would close. Eric Ripert would be reduced to selling his seared langoustine with mache, wild mushroom salad, shaved foie gras and white balsamic vinaigrette out of a van on 51st Street and running for it every time the cops came around the corner.
All for a little bit of salt.
FOXNews.com - Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd'
Oh, but wait! How about this for a headline: New York Assembly To Ban Salt.
Think I'm making this up? That's okay. For a minute, I thought MSNBC, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News and FOX News were making it up, too (and FOX probably was).
But no, this is a real thing. Brooklyn Democrat Felix Ortiz has actually introduced a bill before the New York State Assembly banning restaurants from using salt in food preparation, and proposing a $1000 fine for any violation. The vital language of the bill reads: ""No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food."
While I originally thought this had to just be some kind of stunt by a small political animal looking to get his name in the papers, Ortiz actually appears serious about this. The New York Daily News quoted him as saying: "It's time for us to take a giant step. We need to talk about two ingredients of salt: health care costs and deaths."
I would rather talk about the only ingredient in salt: salt. And maybe about the way it is used in real restaurants (read: those where you don't order your cheeseburgers through a giant clown head), which is sparingly. Pretty much every preparation, every recipe, every dish in a professional kitchen has salt in it--a reasonable amount of salt, in most cases. The perfect amount in the best. And to ban the use of salt outright would be tantamount to saying that every restaurant meal served in the state of New York, from now until forever, must taste like the salisbury steak that you stole off Uncle Jimmy's lunch tray when you visited him in the hospital after his hernia surgery. It's like saying everything must taste like grandma's nursing home dinner or those special meals prepared for invalids recovering from triple-bypass surgery. It would be the death knell for all fast food operations (not the worst thing in the world), but also the end of Manhattan as one of the dining capitals of the world. The tourist economy would collapse. The restaurants would close. Eric Ripert would be reduced to selling his seared langoustine with mache, wild mushroom salad, shaved foie gras and white balsamic vinaigrette out of a van on 51st Street and running for it every time the cops came around the corner.
All for a little bit of salt.
