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Randy D

I ordered breakfast at the courthouse's cafeteria, took one bite, it tasted like salted salt with extra salt and a dash of salt.


  Why do some people seem to think that salt = flavor and that more salt = better flavor?  Grrrrr.




Posted - January 24, 2019
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  • Good question.  Some people add salt without even tasting the food first .. so they don't think something has any flavor without a ton of salt.  It's mostly just a bad habit IMO .. and some restaurants seem to go along with that idea.  I gave up adding extra salt years ago ... so any amount of added salt is too salty to me.  Much easier to use less salt and just offer a salt shaker for the over-salters.
      January 24, 2019 11:02 AM MST
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  • 7939
    Probably because the food wouldn't have had any flavor at all if it wasn't for the salt. It's kind of a favorite American pastime- processing food to the point it no longer has nutrition or flavor and then loading it down with salt, sugar, and fat to make it edible. 
      January 24, 2019 11:51 AM MST
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  • 53509

     I might agree with you except for the fact that salt doesn't equal flavor, and those efforts don't make the food edible.  Salt, when applied properly, is supposed to enhance flavor, nor create flavor or mask flavor.  And this particular "meal" I threw in the trash; it was that inedible.

      January 24, 2019 12:08 PM MST
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  • 7939
    I agree with you, but that's not the way the food industry works here, especially when pennies are being pinched. 
      January 24, 2019 1:41 PM MST
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  • 53509

      They really play to the lowest common denominator, don't they?
    ~
      January 24, 2019 2:25 PM MST
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  • 1893
    The Food companies have cost reduced products so much over the last 20 - 30 years.  To maintain flavor they use Salt, Fat and Sugar.  The driving force behind this is Hedge Funds, Wall Street, and others demanding increased profit.  This done via eliminating overhead, think employees, Employee benefits, and reformulating existing products.  Look at folks like Nelson Pelz, Carl Ichan, and others.

    We no longer buy processed foods.  We lways make from scratch when in the US.  In the EU the Food Companies cannot work the same US evil magic.  This why why Trump keeps pushing for EU Ag Reform.

    Now enjoy your salt and the early trip to the grave
      January 24, 2019 5:09 PM MST
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  • 6023
    Sounds like the Monty Python "Spam" skit ... only with Salt.  LOL


    Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings with horned helmets on. A man and his wife enter.

    Man (Eric Idle): You sit here, dear.

    Wife (Graham Chapman in drag): All right.

    Man (to Waitress): Morning!

    Waitress (Terry Jones, in drag as a bit of a rat-bag): Morning!

    Man: Well, what've you got?

    Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and salt; egg bacon and salt; egg bacon sausage and salt; salt bacon sausage and salt; salt egg saltsalt bacon and salt; salt sausage saltsalt bacon salt tomato and salt;

    Vikings (starting to chant): Salt salt salt salt...

    Waitress: ...salt salt salt egg and salt; salt salt salt salt salt salt baked beans salt salt salt...

    Vikings (singing): Salt! Lovely salt! Lovely salt!

    Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and salt.

    Wife: Have you got anything without salt?

    Waitress: Well, there's salt egg sausage and salt, that's not got much salt in it.

    Wife: I don't want ANY salt!

    Man: Why can't she have egg bacon salt and sausage?

    Wife: THAT'S got salt in it!

    Man: Hasn't got as much salt in it as salt egg sausage and salt, has it?

    Vikings: Salt salt salt salt (crescendo through next few lines)

    Wife: Could you do the egg bacon salt and sausage without the salt then?

    Waitress: Urgghh!

    Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like salt!

    Vikings: Lovely salt! Wonderful salt!

    Waitress: Shut up!

    Vikings: Lovely salt! Wonderful salt!

    Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon salt and sausage without the salt.

    Wife (shrieks): I don't like salt!

    Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your salt. I love it. I'm having salt salt salt salt salt salt salt baked beans salt salt salt and salt!

    Vikings (singing): Salt salt salt salt. Lovely salt! Wonderful salt!

    Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

    Man: Well could I have her salt instead of the baked beans then?

    Waitress: You mean salt salt salt salt salt salt... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)

    Vikings (singing elaborately): Salt salt salt salt. Lovely salt! Wonderful salt! Salt spa-a-a-a-a-am salt spa-a-a-a-a-am salt. Lovely salt! Lovely salt! Lovely salt! Lovely salt! Lovely salt! Salt salt salt salt!

      January 24, 2019 12:39 PM MST
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  • This has always been my most favorite MP skit.   
      January 24, 2019 7:56 PM MST
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  • 10644
    Salt enhances flavor.  The amount of salt used enhances different attributes (e.g. sweet, savory).  When one combines foods (say, ham and eggs) the salt used to enhance the flavor of the items separately, can overpower the intended purpose of the salt.

    People are also ignorant.  The popular motto is "more is better".  If a small amount does such and such, then doubling that amount will double that result.  This erroneous thinking can gop as far as causing major health problems (overdoses, obesity, burnout, etc.) which can lead to death.
      January 24, 2019 1:10 PM MST
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  • 44620
    Courthouse? Did you violate another restraining order?

     I use a potassium salt KCl. I have one of these.

      January 24, 2019 4:01 PM MST
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  • 53509

      Pish posh.  Legally speaking, frivolous restraining orders are invalid and therefore cannot be violated.  I'm safe.
    ~
      January 24, 2019 5:00 PM MST
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  • 23577

    Randy D takes a bite . . . 


    Image result for black man grimacing This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at January 24, 2019 6:51 PM MST
      January 24, 2019 4:58 PM MST
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  • 53509

      You were there!

    ~
      January 24, 2019 5:01 PM MST
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  • 23577
    I thought that might have been you!! I wasn't sure, though!
      January 24, 2019 5:03 PM MST
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  • 8214
    That is the perfect "too much salt" face. 
      January 24, 2019 6:51 PM MST
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  • 23577
    I sort of thought that, too!
    :)
      January 25, 2019 6:43 AM MST
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  • 1713
    Yuck! I don't really like any spices at all. Maybe a pinch of salt is okay, but some people just go way overboard. Maybe they're taste impaired?
      January 24, 2019 5:03 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I find that many restaurant foods are prepared with too much salt.  I never add it unless I prepare something at home where I can control the amount.  
      January 24, 2019 5:53 PM MST
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  • 44620
    Garlic rules.
      January 24, 2019 6:31 PM MST
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  • 19937
    There are much better spices than just salt, but they are more expensive.
      January 24, 2019 6:46 PM MST
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  • 44620
    Not really expensive. I can spice up my dishes with stuff I get from the dollar store. I use salt very sparingly. It is not a spice. It has been used for millennia for preserving food. 
      January 24, 2019 6:55 PM MST
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  • 19937
    More expensive than salt if you're buying as much as a restaurant.  Salt as a preservative is why so many frozen foods have such a high sale content.  That and sugar ... the bane of my existence.
      January 25, 2019 7:16 AM MST
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  • 44620
    Most of the sugar I consume comes from fruit juices. We still have to have sugar in our diets to maintain cellular respiration.
      January 25, 2019 7:44 AM MST
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  • 19937
    I realize sugar is necessary, but just about everything contains it and in too large a quantity - even foods that are supposedly healthy.
      January 27, 2019 9:35 PM MST
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