FOTM has been chronicling the increasing encroachments on our freedom with legislation like NDAA and Obamacare, as well as the petty tranny by local and state governments, such as:
- No goldfish for you
- No treehouse for you
- No veggie garden for you
- No lemon tree for you
- No baby bottle-milk for you
- No kid’s birthday party for you
- No bunny for you
Now add the restaurant chain Boston Market to the ever-growing list of patronizing mommy-knows-best Nazis.
Kim Bhasin reports for Business Insider, Aug. 22, 2012:
Boston Market has announced that it’s removing salt shakers from the tables of all of its 476 locations, but pepper shakers will remain, reports Bruce Horovitz at USA Today.
It’s part of an initiative to reduce the sodium content of its fare. The dismissal of the salt shakers is mostly an attempt to raise awareness about sodium intake, according to CEO George Michel.
You’ll still be able to get salt from the condiment station, though. It’s just a move to try to get patrons to taste their food before putting a pile of salt on it, according to Amanda L. Chan at the Huffington Post.
Boston Market wants to reduce sodium levels in rotisserie chicken, macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes by 20 percent in the next six months, and reduce levels by 15 percent menu-wide by the end of 2014.
It’s also testing reduced-sodium salads and sandwiches.
I expect that, any day now, the FDA will declare salt shakers to be Weapons of Mass Destruction. After all, we little people need the do-gooder elites to tell us what to and not to do, what to and what not to eat, when to and when not to go pee. As as that great “objective impartial TV journalist” Katie Couric, in a moment of unguarded candor, once said, American people are the “great unwashed”!
H/t FOTM’s beloved moxielouise!
~Eowyn
“Petty Tranny”? What? Has sodium something to do with Trans-sexuality? Just wondering.
However, if you reduce salt in everything you serve, eventually you lose customers because fast food is all about taste and not about nutrition. You go to a place because it’s A. Cheap, B. Tastes good, and C. Is fast. If Boston Market chooses the health centric mode they’ll lose to the rest of the fast food industry and the high volume sit-downs like Friday’s, and the rest.
No matter how good the intentions are, you can’t control the customer’s taste or budget. Good luck with that Georgy.
The free market will decide whether the are right or not..we can all recall new coca cola,and what a disaster that was for Coca cola. If you are smart you listen to your customers..
Here is their contact info:
http://www.bostonmarket.com/feedback/index.jsp
I have spent my last dime in one of their locations.
Too bad, too, because I like the place.
-Dave
Bet they still use plenty of salt when seasoning their meats….
Those low sodium meals will be best sellers, not!
Ridiculous… let the people decide if they want to add salt… no more Obama plan… more socialism…
No salt for you!