Because shiny, happy New York doesn’t have anything better to worry itself over:
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
AdvertisementThe legislation, which Assemblyman Felix Ortiz , D-Brooklyn, introduced on March 5, would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation.
You have got to be fracking kidding me. If it’s too salty, send it back. Otherwise, let the chef do what he does best — and let Felix Ortiz suck eggs.
I’ve come along to Professor Reynolds’ view that it’s time to bring back tar and feathers. And in prodigious quantities.
I still have seen any data, that’s DATA, showing a link between salt intake and health problems. There have been a lots of claims and a boatload of politics, but an extreme lack of actual facts.
“No…restaurant…shall use salt in any form…”
If passed this law puts all restaurants out of business. NYC tap water and most bottled waters contain salt in concentrations of at least 1 part per billion.
Baked bread contains salt as do sausages and all deli meats. Canned foods contain salt. Frozen foods have salt.
Fresh vegetables contain salt which these plants require in order to live. The plants get the salt from the soil and rain water.
We would all die if salt were eliminated completely from our bodies, our food, and our beverages.
We would be better off if we eliminated politicians instead if salt.
Remind me never to accept an invitation to dinner at Felix Ortiz’s house.
2. Sol Vason.
yeah I was thinking the same thing. Frankly, I’ve eaten saltier ‘home cooked’ meals than I have ever eaten in a restaraunt. SHhhhh! Don’t tell NY legislators though, next thing you know they’ll ban salt in the home too. Glad I don’t live in NY!
They’re trying to make salt a controlled substance?
Next we’ll have illegal salt dealers.
So what happens when people get bad street salt? You know, the stuff that’s not iodized and gets all crusty in humidity?
Won’t someone please think of the children!
Paging Captain Kirk; Captain Kirk to the briefing room…
The one thing that I came away from the John Adams HBO series was the portrayal of the tar and feathers scene. I mean they didn’t hold back one bit showing how painful it was to have molten tar poured over your body. I think that served a pretty good example of how not to make oneself too much the subject of ridicule lest a bucket of hot pitched poured over your head. Oh well, nothing a flagon of hearty mead couldn’t cure.
Don’t forget the rail. There must be a rail.