From MyFox in New York (via reader LN) comes news that local Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a democrat from Brooklyn, has put forward a bill to the State Legislature that bans all salt use in restaurants. It reads, in part…

“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises […]

The reported reaction from the trade is fittingly more bemused than outraged, as the chances of this thing becoming law sit at nil. Still, though moronic, you have to admire the courage.