Yep. Bill A. 01129 by Felix Ortiz (D) would ban the use of salt in preparing food in NY restaurants. That state is swimming in corruption scandals, the country has massive unemployment, and we're on the verge of killing the economy with socialized healthcare, and this is the stuff they consider important.

Grits and peas just ain't no 'count unless they are cooked with salt. If you don't use salt when you cook them, you cain't never add enough!

Do they eat grits in NYC?

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This initiative gives a whole new meaning to the term "nanny state..."

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This is the kind of thing we will all be subject to when they pass socialized healthcare.

This should lower the assalt rate.

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Someone may correct me, but isn't it New York City that made up a bunch of pamphlets advising heroin users how to re-use their needles safely? Makes sense to me.

No, they don't. And if you could get them to fix some for you, you wouldn't want to eat them, either.

So, anyone got a holster recommendation for deep concealment of a salt shaker?

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Wow. And NYC is home to some of the best restaurants in the world...
it's absurd of course. But I just don't see it happening.
Who do you think the "Salt Police" will be? Maybe it could be a new job for some of the food critics. It could start a whole other branch of corruption in itself. The restaurants could pay the Food Critic Salt Police to look the other way and get a good review!

My dad would salt everything to where it looked like a snow field. It might have been what killed him at 90.

Totalitarianism is upon the American nation.

Obama just appointed Charlie Tuna as Salt Czar. Any chef caught using salt will be sent to, you guessed it. The salt mines.

Nuff said.

What's next........pepper? Guilty by association. The two are always seen together.

If it saves just one life, it will be worth it!! Sarcasm off.

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No, never pepper. ----Now if we could color salt black-------?

How are they going to make those wonderful corned-beef sandwiches?

It is really going to kill the sale of Margaritas.

NY! I expected CA maybe.

No Salt NY is an excellent idea.
Salt is necessary for body functions and, we get most of it from foods we eat. Excesses of salt Blood Pressure and, Hardning of the Arteries.
There is NO SALT SHAKER at our house in Virginia. We use salt only on sidewalks and, driveway.

I'm sorry, but who the heck are you to dictate how someone else lives? Salt in moderation is not a health issue.

I bought some low sodium foods, and guess what there was in a large proportion - potassium. When are "they" going to figure out that's no good either.

Quit trying to control my life already.

It was crazy there when I left in 1974 and never went back!!! Got get back to the Hill Country in Texas this place here is a mini NY in the makeing.

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You have to wonder if the next move would be to outlaw sales of salt in stores - pretty soon you'd have people selling salt "under the table" complete idiots!!!!

I try to watch the salt intake.That's my business and my choice to share that info with my friends on the forum.Everyone else can stick it.

D.G.

Quick! - get Diane Sawyer over there! She's the one who got the supplies moving to the earthquake victims in Haiti. She'll straighten this mess out!

...but not the batteries.

The state that banned firecrackers, sparklers, strike-any-where matches and lead fishing sinkers will now take on that evil compound salt.
Somehow it seems to fit right in.

If it's so bad,,then they should ban it. But they better ban tobacco and alcohol before they ban salt if that's the case.

Perhaps a salt tax is a possibility is this cash strapped state. After all, those other substances are allowed to be sold and used as long as the gov't profits from the tax money.
They must not be as bad as they say they are as long as they can be taxed.

Better yet they should just leave us the hell alone.

Are they going to ban swimming in the ocean, too? Might accidentally swallow some salt water....

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I assume salt licks for deer are next...what will they put out for them? Tofu licks?

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Guess I'll have to stock up on salt - when they outlaw it I'll get rich

Everything is going so well the government has nothing to worry about except your salt intake. We couldn't have it any better.

Clearly, that Ortiz feller ain't worth his salary.

The word salary is derived from the word salarium, (IIRC) which is also the Latin word for salt.

That is where the old saying "he isn't worth his salt" comes from.

That there boy ain't worth his salt.

That feller that came up with this is an absolute idiot.

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When I lived in NY I went to Ohio for the fireworks, Connecticut for the lobsters and clams, Pennsylvania for some deer hunting, Canada for the high test booze; I guess I would have had to add a trip to Massachusetts for the ol salt.
And people ask me why I moved from my home (I do miss the place dearly- not the bull **** though).

Gee, I wonder why.

So much stupid in such a small state. Nuff said.

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I know I'm out of line here however, grits without salt is like Smith & Wesson without shiny steel and polished wood!

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It's mostly just the folks within 50 miles of NYC and 50 miles of Albany. You wouldn't want everything that happens in Austin blamed on you, would you?

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Thanks for clearing that up

Btw, eating grits in NY is like eating pizza in the deep south.

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Try baking bread without salt. Not good.

Salt intake as a cause of high blood pressure has been pretty much debunked.

Please tell me how you know that. I do understand Sodium has a hypertensive effect, Sodium Chloride is salt.

I can't say for sure. But the doc tells me, salt is bad if you have high BP. But it will not give you high BP.

In any case, who cares? It is not the Govs job to 'protect' me from the evils of salt, or tobacco, or trans fats, or whatever.

It's not our fault that NY'ers don't make pizza the way we like it.

It also criminal down here to eat fried chicken with a fork.

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Thanks for the clarification. I agree on the government part.

Now wait just a minute there! We've got a feller here in Tulsa that came down from Brooklyn just to make us pizza! His is three times better than anything I've eaten in Manhattan.

'Course, about the only way I'd eat grits in NY is if redlevel came up and made them for me.

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Anybody besides me like ketchup on pizza?

Transplants excluded.

Besides everyone who lives or ever lived in the City knows the best pizza comes from Brooklyn or Da Bronx.

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when salt is outlawed, only outlaws will have salt.

Who the hell eats fried chicken with a fork? If you're implying NY'ers do, you're dead wrong. I never saw a NY'er, or anyone for that matter, eating fried chicken with a fork !!

The only vice I have is mustard on a hamburger. I'll take mine with ketchup please. We use mustard for hotdogs and hot pretzles.

Back on topic. This retard Ortiz will never get his asinine idea to fly. The only thing I can see NY doing with his idea, is placing a tax on salt. Hell, they're going to do it with soda. It's bad for the kids so we'll place a special tax on it.

LOL...maybe he meant spaghetti...LOL

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I live in the "suburbs" and believe me. We certainly dont have a shortage of idiotic politicians with idiotic ideas. The City just seems to come up with more of them.
Tom

Tom, that just might have something to do with their constituency.

......moon

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I'll bet there are a few folks living uptown that would disagree with that statement.

Anyway, I'm stocking up on Hi-cap shakers so I'll be set when the big "shake up" takes place.

......moon

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