Give up salt or give up wine?

[John_Kight]

I think Mark meant salt anywhere, not added salt. Think how bad that would be! Forget ever having baked goods again. Fruits, veg, and unsalted meat. Hey, I’m almost there Those baked goods though…

Yes, salt period.

Impractical. Nothing from the ocean. No risen dough. No soy sauce. No restaurant food. No Take Out. Virtually no cheese. No pork. Nothing from a can. No cold cuts. No pizza. No fast food. No Mexican food. No Chinese food. No Chablis.

Even more impractical than that. No nuts, no vegetables, no fruits. All food has sodium (though some fruits have as low as 3-5 mg). In addition, humans would die without any dietary sodium. (Just confirmed this via a quick Google search).

[Chris_Seiber]

Would you give up wine or TV?

To clarify:

By TV, I mean any viewing of TV, whether news, sports, programming, watching streaming content, watching DVDs, anything.

The ban would include when you’re out in commercial establishments or at someone else’s house. But it wouldn’t mean that you can’t be at a restaurant or a friend’s house where you’ll incidentally see a TV on, so long as you don’t actually watch it in substance.

And you can’t watch TV or the equivalent on your phone or computer either. But you can otherwise use your phone and computer in other ways.

You can, however, go to the movie theater and watch a movie. Or I guess watch a not-made-for-TV movie on a computer or phone or on the back of an airplane seat.

Which would you do?

[Neal.Mollen]

Would you give up wine or TV?

To clarify:

By TV, I mean any viewing of TV, whether news, sports, programming, watching streaming content, watching DVDs, anything.

The ban would include when you’re out in commercial establishments or at someone else’s house. But it wouldn’t mean that you can’t be at a restaurant or a friend’s house where you’ll incidentally see a TV on, so long as you don’t actually watch it in substance.

And you can’t watch TV or the equivalent on your phone or computer either. But you can otherwise use your phone and computer in other ways.

You can, however, go to the movie theater and watch a movie. Or I guess watch a not-made-for-TV movie on a computer or phone or on the back of an airplane seat.

Which would you do?

Wait . . . does this include porn?

[K_John_Joseph]

Would you give up wine or TV?

To clarify:

By TV, I mean any viewing of TV, whether news, sports, programming, watching streaming content, watching DVDs, anything.

The ban would include when you’re out in commercial establishments or at someone else’s house. But it wouldn’t mean that you can’t be at a restaurant or a friend’s house where you’ll incidentally see a TV on, so long as you don’t actually watch it in substance.

And you can’t watch TV or the equivalent on your phone or computer either. But you can otherwise use your phone and computer in other ways.

You can, however, go to the movie theater and watch a movie. Or I guess watch a not-made-for-TV movie on a computer or phone or on the back of an airplane seat.

Which would you do?

Wait . . . does this include porn?

Two follow up questions to Neal’s: (i) can I play video games on my TV?; (ii) if the Spurs make the playoffs or Cowboys make Superbowl, can I please watch those games if I give up drinking wine while watching?

[Scott_G_r_u_n_e_r]

It’s a bit of a muddy definition that you can not watch DVD’s but you can go to a movie theatre or watch them on airplanes. Brett Favre.

Let’s go back to a real hypothetical like consuming zero sodium chloride in any shape or form.

[K_John_Joseph]

Let’s go back to a real hypothetical like consuming zero sodium chloride in any shape or form.

To be fair to Mark, he came off that hypo pretty early and switched to no added salt and assumption of satisfaction of dietary needs.

[Eric_Egan]

Appears it’s the exclusive beetroot and Beaujolais diet for me from here on out!

[TimF]

This is an easy one: wine.

Salt is so crucial that it has its own flavor category.

[Albert_R]

Easy peasy: salt!

[GregT]

This is an easy one: wine.

Salt is so crucial that it has its own flavor category.

Caramel?

[John_Ammons]

I thought of this thread last night while I was aggressively salting the vegetables and the chicken for a roasted chicken dish. Then I opened a beer.

As for giving up garlic vs wine, here’s some garlic trivia: this ingredient appears all of one time in the index of the French Laundry cookbook. So you can indeed eat pretty well without garlic.

[David_Glasser]

Ok, gentle people. Enough salt from products that contain it in small quantities to allow you to live. But I suspect you will be giving up seafood. And yes, this excludes salty products like soy sauce and Cheetos

Flawed thought experiment.

That’s too restrictive and impractical to make giving up salt a reasonable choice. I suspect most of those who said salt are answering assuming a less strict reduction.

We use very little salt in cooking. I’d easily give that up as well as salty condiments before giving up wine.

Giving up foods that are typically heavily salted in restaurants and fast foods/processed foods with a high salt content? Harder, but I’d do it before giving up wine.

No baked goods at all? Cheeses? Seafood? Might be able to give up one of these for wine. All of them? Fuhgeddaboutit.

[Ian_S]

You know what seems to be impossible to give up?

Posting ludicrous hypothetical questions on internet forums.