Restaurants trying to sneak a bit of sodium chloride on to the plate would be fined $1,000 (£600) every time they were caught.This is impressive; it ticks a virtual record number of boxes for the case against the US, as domestic bureaucratic news go. Pointless health-obsessiveness, pompous nannying of Joe Public, the relentless blandification of the cultural base, legal prosecution, the continuing misidentification of society's evils and a slavish devotion to consumer choice not just as a philosophy but as a religion.
Automatic weapons on demand? Creationists? The war on drugs? The war on the environment? The lack of a welfare state? Capital punishment? No. Salt, obviously.
Of course, the man probably only knows the kitchen as that room with the fridge. I can see this getting through, nevertheless - you might plod on colourlessly a few more years without the spices of life, after all. And isn't that the most important thing?
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