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Quick Bites: Sweet and Salty Edition
- Labels mandated by the Country of Origin Labeling laws that went into effect in March are beginning to appear in stores.
- A recent Wall Street Journal Health column chastises Americans for consuming too much salt. In other news, Connecticut-based writer tells Journal columnist to shut the hell up.
- Confectioner makes candy that looks like bacon but tastes like… strawberries.
- Pepsi unleashes two soft drinks for the summer containing beet and cane sugars. Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, which — alas — feature no psychedelia on their bottles, are intended to return consumers to an Age of Aquarius before HFCS harshed our trip. Ride the snake!
- Tiki comes to DC. Let the drunkening begin.
Take this with a grain of salt…
… because that’s all you’re allowed to have, tiger. The Economist, with an unbecoming tone of approval, predicts that sodium is well on its way to becoming the next trans-fat:
Interestingly, New York City—which was among the first to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, and the first to pass laws targeting unhealthy eating habits—isn’t waiting for a new administration in Washington, DC to place salt on some national hit list.
By all accounts, New York is preparing to add permissible sodium levels to its recent ban on artificial trans-fats and its requirement for calorie counts to be listed on the menus in restaurant chains. Absent some national initiative, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle won’t be far behind.
One way or another, the betting is that by this time next year salt will be the new trans-fat. And manufacturers will be vying with one another to provide the lowest figure in the land.
Foodies, take note. Just as salt is coming into its own as a connoisseur product we may need to man the barricades in defense of this simple pleasure — and get our tasty New York pizza while we can.
