I haven't set foot in a Boston Market since they had Keith Olbermann as a spokesman.

Doesn't look like I've been missing much.

I'm trying to eat grass fed etc.

So I decide to buy a roast chicken and Whole Foods. Wow that shit is horrible. Damn I wish they would learn to cook because alot of their pre-cooked taste flavorless. I dont know how you take the flavor out of meat but apparently you can.

These bitches dont know how to cook. They need to learn how to cook. Healthy food can and does taste good.

Now Imma eat some bacon and eggs.

"An original recipe KFC chicken breast has 1,080 milligrams."

Holy moley! Is that all? How do they make it taste so good with only that much salt?

Maybe you missed that whole "secret blend of herbs and spices" thing.

But back to Boston Market. Isn't there a personal opinion of the CEO's that can be protested?

Aren't there any low-carb mayors willing to stop Boston Markets from opening in their cities?

There should be a day of organized salt-ins at Boston Markets across the nation, to which protesters would bring their own salt shakers. They should buy the cheapest thing on the menu, and before they even taste it, salt the hell out of it right there in front of everybody.

No, Ken, they should just avoid the place. No one who treats me like that will ever see a dime of my money.

It's their company, and they can do as they like. I don't have to subsidize it.

We don't have one near us, but if one opens I'll not be eating there. I don't like the taste of really salty food, but I don't need someone telling me I can't season to my taste.

I haven't been to one since they had to cut locations a few years ago. They aren't convenient.

Plus I can cook better than they can.

You sometimes need to add the salt into the recipe to get flavor.

But making me have to get up and get little freaking packets from a counter in a semi-sit-down restaurant just to make the owners happy. Kiss my ass.

Never ate there; now, never will. Whattabuncha asshats.

(Amy, I sent you a link to a story about the Boy Scouts in CT. Seems they ignore the anti-gay rule in order to get funding from the United Way. Check it out!)

But they love teh gay!

Also "Cracker Barrel."

Anybuddy ever eat at one?

Hispanic family on their website, IJS.

> I haven't set foot in a Boston Market since they
> had Keith Olbermann as a spokesman.

This amuses me. Keith Olbermann to sell FOOD.

Mmmm, A busty schoolmarm's preening condescension... Appetizing!

I'm already avoiding Boston Market, because the one time I went there it tasted pretty bad.

Crid, what about Cracker Barrel?

Cracker Barrel has the worst food on the planet, that's what. with a side of uniformly crappy service.

Per the LAT graphic, I'm amused that a restaurant for high-turnout, intensely Republican voters would be named "Cracker Barrel."

fun

I would love to boycott the place, but I haven't eaten there in ages. The food is only marginally better than airline food and falls well short of an Army mess hall.

"Goes Bloomberg" is a tidy coinage.

Everyone saw this, right?

There used to be a Boston Market right next to the freeway on-ramp. Prime location. It's now Chipotle. This is probably what happens when you're more concern with being PC than pleasing with your paying customers.

Good for them, we should be cutting salt in food. It belongs on the rim of the glass.

Threadwin

I like Boston Market but, since they reduced the number of stores, it is much harder for me to get there. Not crazy about their changing the food, much less table ammenities to satisy the anti-salt brigade. None the less, I seldom add s or p to any of their foods anyway. Why can't we be allowed to think for ourselves!

Cracker Barrel sure attracts some good eaters.

I never understood the criticism of Obama as an arugula eater until I visited my ex's mid-western family. The salad was iceberg, tomato wedges, and hidden valley ranch. I braced the Folgers that was surely coming the next morning. It's like the last 20 years never happened.

I did like how they funded I80 O&M with tolls. You guys just generously spent about 176 million re-surfacing the section I commute on. thanks.

> It's like the last 20 years never happened.

See also, Indiana. Meat and potatoes.

I LOVE COSTCO chicken. First time I had one I stripped that thing to the bone in one go

I posted the Detroit Immigrant Games thing to my FB. All the people who had been so very vocal against CFA and Akin and whatnot lately have been totally, completely silent on this. It's scary.

M4, listen, you and I agree about some things, and we disagree about some things, right? But I need you to believe me on this, please believe me:

Lefties are not kind. Their entire worldview is predicated on the assumption that they're nicer than other people, more compassionate and so forth, but it's not true. They like nothing more than being distant from other people, especially people who make their way through the world with toil and engagement: Their good works require investment by third parties, always.

But lefties will often speak of the world through a baseline assumption that you and I agree with them that their hearts are pure. Almost no one, especially in their lefty circles, ever calls the bluff. (I think this partly human nature and partly a consequential misreading of Christian themes in our intellectual heritage. But we can argue about that later.)

For now, understand this: You must never let any normal person you meet talk to you like they know things about decency that other people, ESPECIALLY YOU, do not know.

They don't. You're a sober, attentive, well-married mother of four, fer Chrissakes. When you meet someone whose decency is truly instructive, they won't have to teach lessons through the exposition of beliefs... You'll know who they are without chatter.

For now, understand this: You must never let any normal person you meet talk to you like they know things about decency that other people, ESPECIALLY YOU, do not know.

That sounds *exactly* like the Christian Right Wing Coalition. This Lefty shit is running rampant.

I hate the idea that they are acting like a nanny and taking the salt-shaker away. On the other hand, I am happy that they are cutting down the amount of salt that they put in food. It's not as though you can remove the salt once food has been prepared with it.

We don't have a local Boston Market, but I don't recall ever spitting out the food for tasting overly salty. I've been unable to eat some locally prepared foods for this reason. It's a southern tradition in some areas to over-salt foods. I guess it is left over from the days before refrigeration when brine was used to preserve foods. Yuck! I simply cannot eat our local Cattle Baron's stew, Furr's Cafeteria chicken and dumplings, or popcorn after my husband has gotten ahold of it.

Perhaps I am particularly salt sensitive. I hear that the normal population is not but a few people may be. After a delicious (and salty) dinner of tortilla soup with chips and queso, my blood pressure shot up more than 100 points. I have no proof that the salt was the culprit and I do like some salt, but geez Louise, more is Not always better.

Is this really out of concern for their customers? Or is it to stop "big brother" from coming after them if they don't hide the salt?

P.S. I haven't eaten at Boston Market in years since the one by me kept running out of cornbread - the only reason I would buy overpriced mac and cheese anyway. As for Cracker Barrel; yep, I love their retrograde 19050s style food - not everyday, but once in a while it is nice.

> That sounds *exactly* like the Christian
> Right Wing

Where they can defend their rhetoric with the example of their lives, they're splendid company, those people.

Almost anybody is.

I didn't experience a Cracker Barrel until I was in my thirties. Both Cracker Barrel and Bob Evans give the feel of a mom & pop road side diner writ large. They take the good qualities, bleach them and put them out in Generica.

That being said I hit a CB about two-three times a month just because they are less than two miles from work and you get sick of burgers.

Those are some flavorless birds. They have no fat; hence they have no taste.

And the less said about Whole Foods' so-called bacon, the better.

Colorado is not the best place in the world to grow food, but we have plenty of ranchers. We've been buying our beef, chicken, and pork direct from nearby ranchers all summer and it has been great.

City kid (I walked by a garden once, but didn't go in): Why no good to grow things? Air too thin for non-succulents or something?

There hasn't been a Boston Market in our area for some years now. There used to be, and I ate there a couple of times. It wasn't bad, but (and here's the irony): the portions were waaaay too big. Especially for lunch. I could barely manage half of one of their sandwiches. A lot of customers requested that they put some smaller (and less expensive) portions on their menu, but they never did. In a year they were closed.

Does anyone actually think that BM wants their customers to be healthy? Or that they're catering to the type of customer that cares about their health? Doubtful.

More likely this is just a clever way to cut expenses. Salt isn't free and neither are the shakers. I work at a restaurant and we have to fill up and wipe off the shakers nightly, wash and refill them weekly, and replace them periodically (as they rust). Taking the salt off the tables reduces spending on salt, shakers, and labor hours. Across the board of a big chain like BM this could make a big difference.

Obviously BM can't say "we're cutting out salt to be cheap"; so they use heart-healthiness as a clever excuse. And they can mount a PR campaign around it as a bonus. Maybe there's even some grant opportunities or a tax break, who knows.

It's like restaurants eliminating napkins or grocery stores charging for plastic bags to benefit the environment--yea I'm sure that's the real reason.