why do expensive foo foo restaurants = sodium bombs?

[Anonymous]

I eat at normal price restaurants (Indian, Jamaican, Korean, Japanese ones mostly) and do not have that issue. Food is flavorful but not super salty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you spending $600 on a restaurant?

$600 is around the price of the starter bottle of Champagne at a good restaurant.

Try working on your drinking problem.

A glass of champagne, a white and a red are a must for a great dinner. Sorry if you have no taste buds or are just simply poor and uptight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:because the chefs’ palates are probably desensitized to salt and salt is the easiest lazy way to savoriness.

I very, very rarely find any expensive meal worth it in terms of flavor. The exception is non-Western cuisine where there is a broader spectrum of spices, techniques and umami ingredients to create flavor. Albi really stands out in that regard.

I've been to finer dining in Europe to Asia though, and I can't recall ever getting plates of of food so salty that it is practically inedible. Asian food is incredbly salty, but even chefs there no how to user a lighter hand or balance it with acidity and/or sweetness. For some reason, the recent trend in finer dining in the US is to drop an atom bomb of salt on food. This has happened across numerous states and multiple types of cuisines. It must be the way modern chefs in America are trained or believe the customer palate must be since so many Americans eat tons of processed junk foods.

Name restaurants so we can compare notes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you spending $600 on a restaurant?

$600 is around the price of the starter bottle of Champagne at a good restaurant.

Try working on your drinking problem.

What an uncouth Ruth! You have probably never gone to a decent dinner party or trip to a restaurant. Everyone knows, a great dinner party is 8-12 people and the champagne, first course, second course and dessert wines/drinks are portioned out. It’s not a lot of alcohol unless you push it.

Try working on your social graces! You’d probably have more friends and more fun.

[Anonymous]

Where is this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not to derail this, but when did we start calling salt "sodium"? What about the chlorine?

When we started getting told to watch our “sodium” intake.

Do you watch your alcohol intake?

How would you order a fine red wine: “one alcohol please”?

Research is showing that any amount of alcohol is not recommended. I have decided to stop drinking (because I never can drink one glass but I could house one bottle of wine) and low salt is obvious. I have a significant history of heart disease in my family and it’s just smart. But I do miss a nice wine buzz!

[Anonymous]

I think people who salt food and drink a lot are the same ones that don’t “believe” in science. We’re thinning the herd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people who salt food and drink a lot are the same ones that don’t “believe” in science. We’re thinning the herd.

People who salt food don’t believe in science?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think people who salt food and drink a lot are the same ones that don’t “believe” in science. We’re thinning the herd.

People who salt food don’t believe in science?

Yes. Or they are not educated or they don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people who salt food and drink a lot are the same ones that don’t “believe” in science. We’re thinning the herd.

People who salt food don’t believe in science?

Yes. Or they are not educated or they don’t care.

DP, but salt NaCl is an essential electrolyte and very necessary. Don't fear it.

People who exercise or work outdoors often and get adequate potassium and magnesium intakes, can certainly eat more salt than someone with a limited and unhealthy diet.

[Anonymous]

This is an american thing. I find most American restaurant food inedible. I only moved here in my mid 20s and all i can taste is the salt. Each summer i go back home for a 6 weeks and it’s so nice to be able to eat a nice meal and not be assaulted by salt. I don’t know why Americans have destroyed their taste buds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you spending $600 on a restaurant?

$600 is around the price of the starter bottle of Champagne at a good restaurant.

But no salt in that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people who salt food and drink a lot are the same ones that don’t “believe” in science. We’re thinning the herd.

People who salt food don’t believe in science?

Yes. Or they are not educated or they don’t care.

Or you might be an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Are there any notable exceptions to this? Sushi, maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an american thing. I find most American restaurant food inedible. I only moved here in my mid 20s and all i can taste is the salt. Each summer i go back home for a 6 weeks and it’s so nice to be able to eat a nice meal and not be assaulted by salt. I don’t know why Americans have destroyed their taste buds.

Where are you from