More on the NY Salt Ban Bill
11th March 2010
Oddly, Ortiz seems to be raising awareness about someone else’s bill. In an interview on Fox News today, he described the bill as offering consumers the choice “to ask the waitress and chef to don’t put any additive sodium in their items.” He further explained that “the bill clearly state that the consumer will have the right to ask whether that item is being prepared with sodium and also to either minimize or maximize [and] will allow the chef and the consumer to have a conversation about what we can add or no add.”
That is not what his bill says. … That’s no salt, anywhere in the preparation of the food. Period.
No decent chef will put up with that. Salt is essential in the preparation of, among other things, pasta and bread. This guy is an idiot, and the people who vote for him are well represented.