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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: Tea Drinker
Date: October 10, 2018, 2:18 pm
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> I can think of at least one case where restaurants often
encourage the customer to season their food before tasting it.
And that is when the server comes around with the pepper grinder
and offers to top your salad. And when they do this, it's always
up to the customer to signal the server when to stop.
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> So here you have a case of adding a little or a lot of pepper,
the amount being totally up to the patron before they have
tasted it.
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> And another I just thought of, adding grated parmesan cheese
on your food as they often do in Italian restaurants. Again, the
server comes around to sprinkle on as much as you want before
you taste your food.
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The servers always seem very surprised when I answer "do you
want fresh pepper?" with "let me taste it first." (So far, at
least, nobody has argued with me about that.)
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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: LadyX
Date: October 10, 2018, 2:35 pm
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> My word. I wasn't implying that it was a good thing. I'm
saying it's a real urban legend that people have picked up on.
Relax.
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Stop it!
This is very disrespectful to your fellow posters. And it's the
second or third time I've had to call you out.
Please don't make there be a 4th.
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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: Hanna
Date: October 11, 2018, 12:10 am
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> I heard of that in the 80's but always thought if a company
won't hire you despite liking/impressed by every other part of
you, but you dared put salt on your food before tasting was
ridiculous. It's not like that test of seeing how they treat the
wait staff.
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I heard it in the 90s, I think it was from a college class that
prepared students for job searching. Other advice I remember
was all in line with this article which mentions the salt thing.
HTML https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/how-to/human-resources/2016/05/how-to-gracefully-handle-a-meal-time-interview.html
Asked my Mom and she’d never heard this either. She also was
surprised anyone would notice!
She tied the salt etiquette to rationing during war but also the
idea that a fine meal from a great chef shouldn’t need anything
added. (Not her idea, but she’s heard this said.)
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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: TootsNYC
Date: October 12, 2018, 3:24 pm
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> Hanna ... "and that if you did this on a job interview they’d
assume you make decisions without all the facts.".
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> I've never heard of that in my life.
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There's an apocryphal story (my own dad, who worked in a
Woolworth's, told this story as though it was his own manager)
about F.W. Woolworth who would "test" his managers by taking
them to lunch, and if they salted the food before tasting it, he
would assume that the manager would make decisions by his
prejudices and assumptions, and not by facts.
It's become a sort of background story for people in a certain
cohort.
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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: NFPwife
Date: January 5, 2019, 10:12 pm
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Today I found a cute little salt shaker with four "fancy" salt
compartments. It'll travel well and one's a tandoori flavored
salt which will be perfect because the restaurant in my post is
not carrying salt at all. I was there in December and asked for
salt (with my "magic words" from this thread) and the counter
person said they didn't have salt at all. Neither did Chipotle.
Good thing there's a chili lime salt, too.
The best part? It was only 99 cents!
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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: Lula
Date: January 6, 2019, 1:45 pm
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If I observed a job candidate salting a dish before tasting it,
I would reject him or her on the spot. Clearly that person
makes big decisions with little information.
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Re: How In-salt-ing
DIR By: LadyX
Date: January 6, 2019, 3:09 pm
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OP, thank-you for the update!
Locked, because we don't need to start all over again.
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