So over thanksgiving week we ate out every day OMG the salt!

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

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I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

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Yeah, the key is to get things that are salt free, or that they can custom make without salt. Scrambled eggs, salads, fruit salad, baked sweet potato, fish, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

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I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

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I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

What fine dining restaurants are too salty for you and what are you ordering?

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

+1
I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

What fine dining restaurants are too salty for you and what are you ordering?

NP-- I am salt-friendly for the most part, but there are some restaurants (Founding Farmers) where the flavor seems to begin and end with salt.

Not sure FF counts as fine dining, though

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

+1
I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

What fine dining restaurants are too salty for you and what are you ordering?

NP-- I am salt-friendly for the most part, but there are some restaurants (Founding Farmers) where the flavor seems to begin and end with salt.

Not sure FF counts as fine dining, though

PP Agree some restaurants begin and end with salt. But that’s just some, some that can be avoided.

And yes . I think it well established that founding farmers is garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

+1
I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

What fine dining restaurants are too salty for you and what are you ordering?

NP-- I am salt-friendly for the most part, but there are some restaurants (Founding Farmers) where the flavor seems to begin and end with salt.

Not sure FF counts as fine dining, though

Not even close. They need copious amounts of salt to cover the garbage they serve.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why we have a persinal chef.

Maybe spend some money on English lessons?

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I like salt just fine, but I think restaurants use tons of it to make things seem tasty for the less discerning palates.

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I didn’t eat out but have the same salt hangover from food at my in laws’ house.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

+1
I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

What fine dining restaurants are too salty for you and what are you ordering?

Oh ff dining has a lot of salt. They salt the salads, vegetables, fruit, meats, fish, deserts, etc. Doing a tasting menu usually has small portions but 7-12 course and you can feel the salt.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t use a lot of salt while cooking and do a lot of stuff from scratch. We have finishing salts that we use at the table. After eating out for a week I felt almost sick and bloated. There was just so much salt in and on everything. Anyone ever experience this?

Your food must be so bland.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the key is to get things that are salt free, or that they can custom make without salt. Scrambled eggs, salads, fruit salad, baked sweet potato, fish, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

+1
I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

What fine dining restaurants are too salty for you and what are you ordering?

Not PP, but I'll play here. The Jose Andres places serve food that I often find WAY too salty (the paella at Jaleo, for example. Pure salt lick.). I grew up in the restaurant industry and like my food well-seasoned. I believe that many cooks and chefs have completely desensitized taste buds and oversalt everything.

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Not PP, but I'll play here. The Jose Andres places serve food that I often find WAY too salty (the paella at Jaleo, for example. Pure salt lick.). I grew up in the restaurant industry and like my food well-seasoned. I believe that many cooks and chefs have completely desensitized taste buds and oversalt everything.

It's unclear if you are stating opinion ("I believe"), or if you are making more an objective observation ("chefs have completely desensitized taste buds").

Is it more likely you are just more salt-sensitive than the average person? Or, is it more likely these chefs are desensitizing the taste buds of themselves, chef award panels, food critics, and the majority of diners who do not regard their food as too salty - these people all have defective palettes?