Redbow
Senior Member
Once it is on your table and on your plate in your home or in a restaurant ? I know many people who do. They somehow seem to think no matter how their food is seasoned more salt needs to be applied before they eat it. My Mom and Stepdad were that way, so were my Grandparents and their children and most of their grandchildren. My Mom taught her two grand daughters to do so as well. Even before they taste their food they apply salt. I have seen my FIL cook scrambled eggs then when he put them on his plate he turned the top of his eggs white with salt. I honestly don't know how he could eat them that way.
I do not and have never added salt to my food after I get it on my plate, either here at my house, at anyone else's house or in a restaurant. I never acquired the habit of doing so. Most of the older generations that I was raised up with had to have more salt on their food before eating it. My Mom also taught my sister to add salt to her food before eating it, somehow Mom slipped up with teaching me on that one.
I am not saying by any means that it is harmful to add more salt to your food after you put it on your plate. I have had doctors tell me not to do so because I have high blood pressure and have been taking medication for it over many years. Some people just seem to crave salt and I know that when I was growing up we salted down our meat on the farm to preserve it and we ate lots of fat back. So I ate plenty of salt in my young life but I try not to today. My Mom had high blood pressure and diabetes, so did the other five of her siblings. Many of my cousins over the years have come down with either high blood pressure or diabetes as well. Most of my family has passed on now I have only one Uncle left and he lives in Florida. I have no idea if salt had anything to do with their medical conditions.
I read about a man years ago that employed about one hundred people to help him run his business. Once a person applied for employment with his company he would take that person out to dinner if he was seriously considering hiring she or he. If that person applied salt to his or her food after their order made it to the table he would not hire them. What the man's reasoning behind that issue was I do not know and the article did not say. I guess the man would have hired me, maybe.
I guess we all eat quite a bit more salt than our bodies really need.
I do not and have never added salt to my food after I get it on my plate, either here at my house, at anyone else's house or in a restaurant. I never acquired the habit of doing so. Most of the older generations that I was raised up with had to have more salt on their food before eating it. My Mom also taught my sister to add salt to her food before eating it, somehow Mom slipped up with teaching me on that one.
I am not saying by any means that it is harmful to add more salt to your food after you put it on your plate. I have had doctors tell me not to do so because I have high blood pressure and have been taking medication for it over many years. Some people just seem to crave salt and I know that when I was growing up we salted down our meat on the farm to preserve it and we ate lots of fat back. So I ate plenty of salt in my young life but I try not to today. My Mom had high blood pressure and diabetes, so did the other five of her siblings. Many of my cousins over the years have come down with either high blood pressure or diabetes as well. Most of my family has passed on now I have only one Uncle left and he lives in Florida. I have no idea if salt had anything to do with their medical conditions.
I read about a man years ago that employed about one hundred people to help him run his business. Once a person applied for employment with his company he would take that person out to dinner if he was seriously considering hiring she or he. If that person applied salt to his or her food after their order made it to the table he would not hire them. What the man's reasoning behind that issue was I do not know and the article did not say. I guess the man would have hired me, maybe.
I guess we all eat quite a bit more salt than our bodies really need.
