Mayor Bloomberg loves ladling out diet tips, but he's not about to give up his salty hot sausages. The Post reports that on his weekly radio show he called a recent proposal to ban salt in restaurants “ridiculous.” "You have to have salt when you cook," observed the mayor. "I do. I use too much salt already myself. But also it makes a lot of foods, the way you cook them and bake them—salt is a real ingredient. So I don't think that's the right thing to do."
The bill’s creator, Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz responded to the mayor’s diss yesterday, saying he had it all wrong: "My intention for this legislation was to prohibit the use of salt as an additive to meals. If salt is a functional component of the recipe, by all means, it should be included. But, when we have meals prepared by restaurants that pile unnecessary amounts of salt, we have a problem." Previously he claimed his bill would fully ban "the use of salt by restaurants in the preparation of food."
Mayor Bloomberg has his own “voluntary” campaign to lower city sodium. Rather than instituting an on outright ban, he’s asked manufacturers and fast food chains to please reduce salt content in their products.
