My mom always just took the top off of them if she wasn't getting enough salt.

Jebus. I just mix sea salt with regular table salt. TA-DA!

Look it up if you don't believe me. Less sodium chloride and you still get iodine ;)

This will just lead to massive increases in occurances of Salter's Elbow.

If the Brits had wanted to use less salt, Gandhi wouldn't have won.

submitter: Still no cure for British food

Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

Lionel Mandrake: Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

I don't believe in memes, but I do believe in curecures.

Lionel Mandrake: submitter: Still no cure for British food

Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

People will stop calling it a Nanny State when it stops behaving like one.

FTA...I thought it was a joke. It doesn't matter how many holes it has, people are going to put on as much salt as they want.'

That's exactly right. People will either keep using the shaker until they have as much salt on their food as they did with the 17-hole shakers. Either that, or if it's food they're taking home to eat, they'll just use their own salt shaker.

It's sad to see that the U.K. is just as bad as the U.S. in wasting tax payer money.

AcheronX: People will stop calling it a Nanny State when it stops behaving like one.

And yet, people still call America a free country...

Lionel Mandrake: AcheronX: People will stop calling it a Nanny State when it stops behaving like one.

And yet, people still call America a free country...

Not everyone, I assure you.

Bathia_Mapes: It's sad to see that the U.K. is just as bad as the U.S. in wasting tax payer money.

Actually, they're worse at it, because they have more of it per capita.

Lionel Mandrake: submitter: Still no cure for British food

Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

Nanny State snowflake snowflake wait what penis C)get off my lawn

Bathia_Mapes: It's sad to see that the U.K. is just as bad as the U.S. in wasting tax payer money.

Actually, this could be an opportunity for them. If they put a meter on each salt shaker - like the mechanism in a pedometer - then they could tax excessive salting! Social engineering through taxation always delivers the goods!

AcheronX: Actually, this could be an opportunity for them. If they put a meter on each salt shaker - like the mechanism in a pedometer - then they could tax excessive salting! Social engineering through taxation always delivers the goods!

You do know about the Salt Tax, right? If so, that's pretty funny.

Sun God: You do know about the Salt Tax, right? If so, that's pretty funny.

If I claim ignorance, is it still funny? My knowledge of British tax laws generally begins and ends with the Beatles tune Taxman.

AcheronX: Sun God: You do know about the Salt Tax, right? If so, that's pretty funny.

If I claim ignorance, is it still funny? My knowledge of British tax laws generally begins and ends with the Beatles tune Taxman.

Up until relatively recently, the French and British governments taxed salt. Lots of other governments throughout history have done the same. They'd find out how much salt you owned, and collect money from you based on the amount. Owning "illegal" salt would get you in trouble. Gandhi staged the famous salt march in 1930 in protest.

AcheronX: People will stop calling it a Nanny State when it stops behaving like one.

Free speech zones? Mofo, please.

Lionel Mandrake: And yet, people still call America a free country...

And worse still, they think that they LIVE in one.

Lionel Mandrake: Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

And I should add, I think it's trite too, but submitter is wanking over the reaction right now. The more people react the bigger hard on he gets.

meekychuppet: The more people react the bigger hard on he gets.

Too bad he doesn't have an electron microscope to see it ;)

Sun God: If the Brits had wanted to use less salt, Gandhi wouldn't have won.

Applause!

Sun God: You do know about the Salt Tax, right? If so, that's pretty funny.

Thunderous applause!

You Sir are in fine form this day.

I am so proud to be British right now

AcheronX: This will just lead to massive increases in occurances of Salter's Elbow.

Hah, this.

/shake shake shake
//shake shake shake
///shake your sa-alt

Cutting down on salt = good idea!

And so at least six councils have ordered five-hole shakers - at taxpayers' expense - and begun giving them away to chip shops and takeaways in their areas. = BAD IDEA.

Still no cure for black pudding...

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Officers collected information from businesses, obtained samples of fish and chips, measured salt content and 'carried out experiments to determine how the problem of excessive salt being dispensed could be overcome by design'

Finally battered, deep-fried fish is a healthy treat! Now maybe they can get back to work on gluten-free morphine.

On Fark it is fine to bash other countries cultures.

The UK, France, Canada, Australia and New Zealand being prime targets.

But once a forriner attacks U.S.A.(number one!) take cover.

You can just screw the top off like I have to do with many pepper shakers that are so packed full that the pepper won't come out. Why do that do that?

Me likey lots of pepper.

Don't the Brits usually go to Indian eateries to avoid British food?

Where can I get some of this saltohol the headline refers to?

global wombats: The UK, France, Canada, Australia and New Zealand being prime targets.

But once a forriner attacks U.S.A.(number one!) take cover.

It's been a long damn time since John Winthrop, but America as a country still generally believes in the whole "City upon a hill" sermon, regardless of their personal faith.

Not to mention that most US history classes (that I've been in or heard about) usually run out of time before they finish World War II, so for a lot of the American history... it kind of is a city upon a hill. Relatively speaking of course. I guess what I'm saying is that some of those feelings are based on nostalgia, and the belief that the whole of American history reflects that.

/America Since 1941 was the best high school elective I ever took
//none of my European history classes ever made it to Napoleon, either

Cagey B: Lionel Mandrake: submitter: Still no cure for British food

Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

Nanny State snowflake snowflake wait what penis C)get off my lawn

France surrenders?

I would pit British food against any other countries food and be expectent of its victory. It is actually quite nice.

/NOMNOMNOM

The Brits are no more "Nanny" than the US, which is bad enough. The taxes are about the same too. The Nordic countries, income tax is at 66-70% but then, the social services are fantastic.

They got it right about the food, though. Bleh.

Are the diameter of the holes regulated by the British Trade Board?

lajimi: Where can I get some of this saltohol the headline refers to?

this.
workohol?
chocohol?
sexahol?

"-(a/o)holic" is not a suffix denoting addiction dammit!

DISAGREES. Wankers.

meekychuppet: Lionel Mandrake: Any cure cure for stupid "Nanny State" meme?

And I should add, I think it's trite too, but submitter is wanking over the reaction right now. The more people react the bigger hard on he gets.

my hero. Oh I hasten to add a Britain is currently leading the industry in fine cuisine, whatever petty little comments you yanktards might wanna add every food the Americans love and relish as their heritage the European continent has done better.. Might I mention the Hamburger vs. Steak Hache.. And Britain's top chefs trained in Paris.. and half of them spend some time in the states showing them how good food is made (i.e. Ramsay).

Gordon Ramsey and the other few men with balls left in England better get up off their arses and lead a revolution because the government and NGO types are turning Britain into a nation of pussies and castrati right before our very eyes.

You let them do away with fox hunting because after all that was just for the aristocrats, but that was just for starters. Now they are telling you how you must eat your goddamn food!. Next they will have cameras in the loo and mandate how many times you have to shake your dick after you piss.

/end rant.
//Yeah I know, we yanks are right behind you.

The_Original_Roxtar: lajimi: Where can I get some of this saltohol the headline refers to?

this.
workohol?
chocohol?
sexahol?

"-(a/o)holic" is not a suffix denoting addiction dammit!

I'm thinking gravyhol. I don't know how to work that one though. If I'd used gravohol it might denote gravity instead of gravy.

/Sausage gravy on biscuits
//and cheddar-scrambled eggs
///and bacon
////.... toast
//PANCAKES.

What I got from the article is that the councils have apparently discovered that Brits quantify their salting by how it looks rather than how it tastes.

Am I only the one who never puts salt on food? (even when cooking my own, I won't add salt.)

Is there nothing that a Black and Decker cordless drill can't fix?

rackrent: Am I only the one who never puts salt on food? (even when cooking my own, I won't add salt.)

Ever try eating a steak without salt? Ugh, no bueno.

Impudent Domain: Yeah I know, we yanks are right behind you.

Way ahead, you'd be madd to think otherwise.

jjorsett: What I got from the article is that the councils have apparently discovered that Brits quantify their salting by how it looks rather than how it tastes.

Y'know, that's probably true, I don't think many people taste test their chips rather than just giving their usual shake, so it probably works once or twice, until people realise they're getting less salt.

crazywisdom_uk:
The Nordic countries, income tax is at 66-70%

The top income tax rate in Denmark is 59%, in Sweden it's 56%, in Norway 47.8% and in Finland 32%. Iceland has a flat rate of 22.5%.

FarkinNortherner: Way ahead, you'd be madd to think otherwise.

hardly ahead, We have some nanny state aspects, but not like the almost daily outrages coming out of the UK.

You need to wake up it's becoming like the V for Vendetta movie.

Impudent Domain: We have some nanny state aspects

California. That a pretty BIG aspect.

necrotizing_fasciitis: my hero. Oh I hasten to add a Britain is currently leading the industry in fine cuisine, whatever petty little comments you yanktards might wanna add every food the Americans love and relish as their heritage the European continent has done better.. Might I mention the Hamburger vs. Steak Hache.. And Britain's top chefs trained in Paris.. and half of them spend some time in the states showing them how good food is made (i.e. Ramsay).

Perfect,

global wombats: But once a forriner attacks U.S.A.(number one!) take cover.

Never in my life have I met a people with a blind spot like the Yanks. I like America and clearly most of the place is okay, but Americans pillocks are far above and beyond any other pillocks in terms of pillockness in my experience.

Impudent Domain: hardly ahead, We have some nanny state aspects, but not like the almost daily outrages coming out of the UK.

As long as you believe the Daily Mail you will continue to believe this. The reality is way different.

All of that said I can't wait to emigrate.