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4:52pm November 27, 2014

It is perfectly possible to make unsalted food flavorful and tasty.

These people didn’t bother.

So I’d gotten three kinds of vegetable bouillon cubes, all by the same company, all with the same basic cube, just slightly different ingredients. One had no salt, one had sea salt, and one had herbs and presumably regular salt.

The one with no salt wasn’t totally disgusting, but it wasn’t good, either.

The thing is… I lived with my father growing up when he, and thus the rest of the family by default, went on a low sodium diet. And there are things you can do to make food not taste like cardboard, besides add salt to it. There are all kinds of spices. Even garlic powder can work wonders.

But these people apparently didn’t care that much about making sure that their low-sodium-eating customers were getting something tasty, because that was… not tasty. At all. I had to force myself to finish it. I will be quite happy when it drains into my bag in a minute, just to literally get it out of my system as fast as possible. Yuck. I think I’ll have to literally add salt from a salt shaker if I eat it again.