Stupid Food Question

dh does use it now for clearing his sinuses, works very good to avoid sinus
infections, Lee
"Winnie" wrote in message
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On Nov 25, 12:11 pm, "Storrmmee" wrote:
this is facinating, DH and i have been together the better part of thirty
years, we have bought maybe five of those blue canisters with the girl on
it
in that time, one we lost in an apartment flood, and one in the house
fire,
two got thrown out due to getting rock hard, lol,
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jmcquown wrote:

Once salted, you can't take it back. I don't usually salt things while
cooking, beyond the usual 1/4 tsp. [or whatever] the recipe calls for.
I
prefer to let people salt for themselves at the table. So... don't put
salt
on anything but your own food?

Jill --also a salt-a-holic

waving hand Another salt freak here! I also don't cook with salt
because pretty much everyone I know prefers a lot less salt than I like
to put on my food. If I salted to taste during the cooking process,
I'd be the only one who would want to eat it.

Also, I've heard that when you salt food while it's cooking, it tends
to lose some of the salty flavor - but it doesn't lose the sodium
content.
So then you might want to salt it again at the table, resulting in more
sodium. If you salt food just as you're about to eat it you don't have
an extra dose of it, at least! (Experienced cooks: any truth to this
theory?)

Joyce

--
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one
to come off as a sane person.
-- Dan Greenberg

I mainly use salt for gargling whenever I have a sore throat, not for
cooking
or seasoning.

jmcquown wrote:


"Art Shapiro" wrote in message
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On 11/25/2010 9:11 AM, Storrmmee wrote:
this is facinating, DH and i have been together the better part of thirty
years, we have bought maybe five of those blue canisters with the girl on
it

In fairness, the stuff is quite useful for sprinkling on snails or slugs
outside. Great visual savoir faire.

Now the question has to be asked: does anyone here salt their cats'
food???

You're being an idiot again. Half an inch away from the k/f.

I think he was just being silly. It didn't sound like a serious question
to me. Or maybe he was just trying to bring the thread on-topic?

Joyce

--
"Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene

"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
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I don't think there's an advantage at all to "sea salt" except
to the marketing department I get food-related catalogs in
the mail. I see no advantage to paying top dollar for trendy
pink sea salt or black Baltic sea salt. It contains traces of
minerals that refined table salt doesn't... which to me doesn't
sound like a great idea. What minerals? They both contain
sodium and chloride and they taste the same.

The extra minerals are mostly magnesium, which a lot of people are
slightly deficient in. One effect of the extra stuff is to make it
taste saltier. If you're reasonably sensitive to what your food
tastes like, this means you use less of it, and hence have a lower
sodium intake.

It's not a large effect but it is real.

If you take a daily vitamin you don't need to spend $$ on sea salt to get
magnesium. You can buy flaked salt (yields a more salty taste while using
less salt) for much less money.

Jill

"Storrmmee" wrote in message
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depends on the walmart, its the deit version of R.C. Cola, well one of
them, there is R. C.* royal Crown Cola* Diet R. C. which has salt, and
caf. then Diet, Rite, which has neither, Lee

Does anyone else remember a commercial for Royal Crown cola, circa 1967?
"Escape! Come on over to Royal Crown Cola! It's the mad, mad, mad, mad
cola! Escape! The one with the mad mad taste!"

I know I didn't make it up. I used to sit on the curb with a friend and
we'd sing the jingle. That just goes to show how far back advertising
affected youngsters. But I don't recall ever drinking RC. Apparently the
ad didn't affect my mother. LOL We never had soft drinks in the house
growing up and I don't drink them now.

Jill

On Nov 26, 1:07*pm, "jmcquown" wrote:

*We never had soft drinks in the house
growing up and I don't drink them now.

We had them for special occasions like Christmas (Still have fond
memories of collecting the bottles- we were allowed to take them back
to the shop for the deposits) but my parents didn't approve of them.
my mum's mum used to give us "Tizer" in china cups and it was "our
little guilty secret" she'd always say "Don't tell your mum". Later
on we were allowed Coke on holidays- all the grown-up's would go into
the pub and leave us out there with a bottle of coke and a bag of
plain crisps and as eldest it was my job to go and ask for more Coke
when we drank it all
I used to drink Coke all the time but stopped a couple of years back
and the one time I had a can since then I couldn't believe how vile it
tasted! I do drink very occasional soft drinks nowadays maybe one a
month

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

On Nov 26, 7:07*am, "jmcquown" wrote:
"Storrmmee" wrote in message

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depends on the walmart, its the deit version of R.C. Cola, well one of
them, there is R. C.* royal Crown Cola* *Diet R. C. which has salt, and
caf. then Diet, Rite, which has neither, Lee

Does anyone else remember a commercial for Royal Crown cola, circa 1967?
"Escape! Come on over to Royal Crown Cola! *It's the mad, mad, mad, mad
cola! *Escape! *The one with the mad mad taste!"

I know I didn't make it up. *I used to sit on the curb with a friend and
we'd sing the jingle. *That just goes to show how far back advertising
affected youngsters. *But I don't recall ever drinking RC. *Apparently the
ad didn't affect my mother. LOL *We never had soft drinks in the house
growing up and I don't drink them now.

Jill

I do. I couldn't remember the whole thing and had to search youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbkoeJ7BVsI&NR=1

Sherry

On Nov 26, 2:15*am, "Storrmmee" wrote:
dh does use it now for clearing his sinuses, works very good to avoid sinus
infections, Lee

Recently my doctor told me to spray saline solution in my noses when
I
was on a plane. Usually it gets very dry in the plane and I was
recovering
from a sinus congestion and cough.

A friend told me she used a neti pot to flush her nasal cavities with
saline soultion.
So salt does has other uses besides seasoning.




"Winnie" wrote in message

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On Nov 25, 12:11 pm, "Storrmmee" wrote:



this is facinating, DH and i have been together the better part of thirty
years, we have bought maybe five of those blue canisters with the girl on
it
in that time, one we lost in an apartment flood, and one in the house
fire,
two got thrown out due to getting rock hard, lol,
wrote in message

...

jmcquown wrote:

Once salted, you can't take it back. I don't usually salt things while
cooking, beyond the usual 1/4 tsp. [or whatever] the recipe calls for.
I
prefer to let people salt for themselves at the table. So... don't put
salt
on anything but your own food?

Jill --also a salt-a-holic

waving hand Another salt freak here! I also don't cook with salt
because pretty much everyone I know prefers a lot less salt than I like
to put on my food. If I salted to taste during the cooking process,
I'd be the only one who would want to eat it.

Also, I've heard that when you salt food while it's cooking, it tends
to lose some of the salty flavor - but it doesn't lose the sodium
content.
So then you might want to salt it again at the table, resulting in more
sodium. If you salt food just as you're about to eat it you don't have
an extra dose of it, at least! (Experienced cooks: any truth to this
theory?)

Joyce

--
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one
to come off as a sane person.
-- Dan Greenberg

I mainly use salt for gargling whenever *I have a sore throat, not for
cooking
or seasoning.

On 26/11/2010 15:35, Lesley wrote:
On Nov 26, 1:07 pm, wrote:

We never had soft drinks in the house
growing up and I don't drink them now.

We had them for special occasions like Christmas (Still have fond
memories of collecting the bottles- we were allowed to take them back
to the shop for the deposits) but my parents didn't approve of them.
my mum's mum used to give us "Tizer" in china cups and it was "our
little guilty secret" she'd always say "Don't tell your mum". Later
on we were allowed Coke on holidays- all the grown-up's would go into
the pub and leave us out there with a bottle of coke and a bag of
plain crisps and as eldest it was my job to go and ask for more Coke
when we drank it all
I used to drink Coke all the time but stopped a couple of years back
and the one time I had a can since then I couldn't believe how vile it
tasted! I do drink very occasional soft drinks nowadays maybe one a
month

I didn't have soft drinks very often as a child, because I got diabetes
at age 5 and the only sugar-free soft drink on the Finnish market at
that time was a disgusting pineapple-flavoured drink that I think was
sweetened with fructose. So it definitely wasn't a good drink for a
thirsty diabetic, but most of all it had this horrible essence-y flavour
so I seldom even wanted it. Sometimes, though, I just 'had to have it'
because all the other kids were having soft drinks and I didn't want to
be too different.

I drink carbonated water now, but no other soft drinks.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

26.11.2010 16:10, Marina kirjoitti:

I didn't have soft drinks very often as a child, because I got diabetes
at age 5 and the only sugar-free soft drink on the Finnish market at
that time was a disgusting pineapple-flavoured drink that I think was
sweetened with fructose. So it definitely wasn't a good drink for a
thirsty diabetic, but most of all it had this horrible essence-y flavour
so I seldom even wanted it. Sometimes, though, I just 'had to have it'
because all the other kids were having soft drinks and I didn't want to
be too different.

I drink carbonated water now, but no other soft drinks.


Do you drink the flavoured carbonated waters or the plain ones. I'm not
much for carbonated waters, but I've noticed there are loads of
different flavours offered - orange, lemon, apple, cranberry, raspberry
etc. etc. They're not like lemonades, the flavour's not that strong,
just a hint of it.

--
Christine in Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com

On 26/11/2010 20:15, Christine BA wrote:

Do you drink the flavoured carbonated waters or the plain ones. I'm not
much for carbonated waters, but I've noticed there are loads of
different flavours offered - orange, lemon, apple, cranberry, raspberry
etc. etc. They're not like lemonades, the flavour's not that strong,
just a hint of it.


I don't really care for the flavoured ones. I drink plain. To me,
carbonated water somehow seems to take away my thirst better than plain
tap water.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.