The Krude Experience - Salt of the Earth

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


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