AIBU to think that, if you sell porridge, you should supply salt?

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Starbucks sell really good porridge, with nuts and seeds.
But don't have salt sachets.
And the staff look at you as though you have 2 heads when you ask.
AIBU to find this irritating?

I have never heard of people putting salt on porridge!

I don't have anything on it, myself. Just before people assume I'm addicted to sugar (which I am in chocolate form, but not on porridge)!

Also never heard of this but going to try it!

I have no interest in living a long life if that means endless decades of self-denial. I love salt. I cook with it and I add it at the table. I have no intention of giving it up. My blood pressure is fine.

I don't like porridge much but if I were going to make it I would use coarse oatmeal, water and salt and add creamy milk or thin cream at the point of serving. The idea of covering it in sugar or syrup does not appeal in the slightest.

Clotted cream is lovely on porridge

I think salt has been demonised. My parents etc used loads of salt both lived into their nineties. I find food very bland without salt.

Yes, but most people already get enough salt in their diet without adding it in. Too much salt is unhealthy.

Ths us what I doubt I'm not Scottish (family were from Northumberland)

excatly, honey and sugar all the way

Love a pinch a salt on/ in my porridge! Brings out the flavour 😬
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@PersephonePomegranate , I hardly eat any. I don't really eat food prepared by others. There's no way that I eat the recommended daily amount.

Never heard of salt in porridge before.
Then again I don't put salt in my veg when cooking or put it on my food either.

Thanks for the responses.
IMO the best porridge is made with 1 part water to 2 parts milk (pref full fat), raisins, a pinch of salt and a dollop of cream.
Mind you, that's nearer to a pudding than breakfast.

I can remember back to the 1970s when the links between excessive salt intake and health issues such as high blood pressure, stroke , heart attacks were first established . And tbh they needed a campaign of demonising salt to raise awareness and change peoples habits.

I was a visiting officer with the DHSS in Glasgow in the late 1970s and early 1980s and saw first hand the people with very low incomes and very poor health and very poor diets, which included traditional high use of salt. And I'm really glad your parents lived good long lives but I'm assuming, even if they used a lot of salt, this was balanced by healthy food and lifestyle choices which would counteract ill effects. It's always the overall picture isn't it that is important?And unfortunately a lot of people who make bad choices in food, and exercise , and smoking etc do it in all areas of their lives and hence inevitability affect their health and life expectancy

Yes, I agree. If you are eating processed food and then adding salt then there could be consequences. But if you’re eating fresh food and add salt then it’s ok. Chinese people eat lots of salt and also MSG they seem to be very health but then they usually only eat fresh food.

Salt on porridge!!! Yuck!! I have never ever heard of this in my life and I’m mid fifties and have traveled the world. Why would you?

It’s quite normal. Also mid-50s and have travelled the world.

salt on tomarto sandwiches yes, but not on porridge

Porridge made with water, a splash of milk over the top and a sprinkling of salt is wonderful.

Not scottish then hen? 😋 😄

Even if you've not personally encountered salt being added to porridge, it's a bit odd to be quite so stunned by the concept. It's salt, not uranium.

The key word in my response was "can"

Additionally my response was in response to someone stating salt was not unhealthy. It CAN be.

I thought it was common knowledge that Scots like salty porridge.

Well, I certainly knew it, and I’ve probably spent less than a week of my life in Scotland, and none of that observing Scottish breakfast practices…

My Dad used to fulminate about people who travelled abroad but didn't know their own country. Admittedly, this was used to justify why we only ever had holidays in the UK when we were growing up, largely from lack of cash, but he had a point.

It's not a topping. It is there to enhance the flavour, same as chocolate, cakes and biscuits are correctly seasoned to improve the flavour.