Salt of the Earth
Damn thee aging ass. Krude finds himself in
another conundrum that has been soiling my soul for months. Salt is not
my friend anymore. But salt is something that is more than very needed in this
world. Suck in your cheeks and read on...
I'm getting older. Really older. Not that 32 to 33 years old
Millennial bullshit. I will hit the golden anniversary of my birth come this
July. With age comes wisdom. Lots of wisdom. With age comes pain. Lots of pain.
Limitations are now a real thing to me. 15 years ago, this wasn't the case. I
could drink like a fish. Eat whatever I wanted. Fuck for hours. Now I scale
everything back. Including salty foods.
Trying to cut back on salty foods isn't easy. It pretty much
eliminates ALL fast food items. It shitcans eating more than two slices of
pizza at a time. Try eating a steak without salt on it. It sucks. Not that eat
steak very often. But you get the point.
I was in Nashville a few years back and ate a famous
pancake place in town. I ordered pancakes and country ham. Pancakes were great.
Ham was beyond salty as fuck. A couple from Delaware was sitting next to me and
verbally lamented the same feelings. Then a local over hearing us complain
explained that "country ham is always this salty". Yuck. Never
again will I eat this over salted shit. Until I eat something my Oklahoma born
mother cooks.
I never realized how salty my mother's cooking was until I
cut back on eating salt. Overcooked and extra salty is her way of cooking.
Yuck. But if most of the country eats over salty food,who am I to complain? Ever
eat Lay's potato chips? That's her favorite. And a favorite across the
land. Bland and salty. Pass...
I will bitch and moan about salty shit until the day I die.
There is no need for foods to be hammered with salt. On the flip side, I cannot
eat non salted butter. Totally defeats the purpose. Or a pretzel without salt. It's
just using salt to compensate for natural flavors that gets under my skin. And
all I see these days is the exploitation of over salted,processed foods. Walk
into a 7/11. Try and find something to eat there that isn't a sodium
farm. First thing I see when I go to my usual supermarket is a sale on name
brand canned soup. Sodium up the ass with that stuff. Ever wonder why
hypertension is such a common malady in the USA? Hmmmm...
Shelf life and convenience are the true enemies of our
culinary culture. Eat fresh more often. Season your own foods. And don't settle
for over salted,over processed foods. You are better than that. Mahalo
Hot metal for the blacksmith forever...
KK
@kapn_krude