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Hide the salt!

Salt159 Following on from the decision to ban cigarette displays in newsagents and supermarkets, the busybodies of Stockport Council have come up with a health drive to hide salt in restaurants and takeaways. Proprietors have been asked to remove salt shakers from counters and table-tops, and only supply them to customers if they specifically ask for it. The idea is part of the wider ‘ASK’ campaign, which sets out the following modus operandi:

“ASK is a unique Greater Manchester initiative to reduce the amount of salt added to food by customers in restaurants, cafes and other catering establishments. Participating businesses display the ASK logo in their windows and use tent cards on table surfaces to demonstrate their support.”

This is the natural progression from the ruling on cigarettes. People are no longer allowed to make a decision for themselves on how much salt to consume. Instead they must be treated like children and have anything which might be bad for them hidden away behind counters. Not to mention the hassle of staff being constantly asked where the salt is. Perhaps sweets will soon be placed on the highest shelves in supermarkets so children cannot reach them.

Whoever is being paid out of taxpayers’ money to come up with ideas like this should be the first to go when the cuts start to hit.

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Big Brother Watch Posted in Home
  • Vince

    The last time I used salt was in the late 50s when I over-dosed on 4 blue twist packets in a bag of crisps.
    Its never to late to start….

  • startledcod

    Cut, don’t be ridiculous, the Local Salt Intake Voluntary Regulation Co-ordinator is unquestionably a front line service.

  • Gerard

    Just in case a glimpse turns us all to stone, I cannot wait for alcohol and the obese to be hidden away.

  • Purlieu

    Salt is a natural substance essential to life.
    The other products from take-aways less so.

  • Ian Hill

    Come on, what do you expect from a Lib-Dem run council. They probably spent a small fortune on committee meetings, minority impact reports and consultations with community leaders (in case removing salt from dining tables could in any way be considered discriminatory to ethnic cultures) and of course all expenses paid fact finding missions to salt production facilities in Bolivia.

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  • anon

    This is going nationwide.
    Just spotted the ASK campaign posters in public sector offices hundreds of miles away.
    This must be national.

  • NeverSurrender

    These people belong to the organisation Salt-Hating Interfering Twats or S.H.I.T. for short. They want to Criminalise the Unnecessary Noxious Taking of Salt which pretty much describes what they are. ;-)

  • MWaPW

    Hang on a minute. A couple of days ago, I just ingested two packets of an enema each containing a massive 2.6 grams of NaCl (diluted in 2L + 1L follow up of water) amongst other substances.
    Does this mean that I have consumed my annual intake in one day. Confused.
    Oh – I’m still alive and well at the time of writing.

  • Steve

    What is meant by ‘asking’ proprietors to remove salt? Do councils have powers to enforce that? How many have meekly obeyed?

  • Harry

    At 66 years of age, I have given up smoking, I excercise in the Gym twice a week. These decisions are mine and mine alone. (I would never dream of preaching the benefits to others) As for Councils, NHS and other interfering busy bodies they can shove their ridiculous advice where the sun doesn’t shine. – As for eating establishments subscribing to this type of nonsense, in my view, they deserve to go bust.

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