When the orange Fresh Direct vending machine arrived at our office I thought it was a real mitzvah. Somewhat impressively, instead of your usual cardboard Automat cheeseburgers, it features pre-prepared, re-heatable food from a few well known chain-ish restaurants in NYC.
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The day the Fresh Direct machine arrived hired guns even came in and did free tastings of all the repasts; which I completely overindulged in along with former Shallow Divers member K-Tray. For pre-packaged, pre-cooked, reheated food, it actually tasted pretty good.
Then a few days ago, I was short on time and decided to go down and purchase my first Fresh Direct vended treat. Now let me first say that I’m no salt Nazi. But I do usually try to steer clear of canned soups, Mac n Cheese, high-test soy sauce, or any other single meal that can single handedly put me over my daily sodium allowance.
As a precautionary measure, I glassed the nutritional information for each meal posted on the vending machine and Holy NaCl!!! These things had more salt in them than I’ve ever seen on a label of anything. A few of the prime offenders had 80% of your daily allowance of sodium; something on the order of 1,600 mg.
I didn’t wind up buying a Fresh Direct vending machine meal that day, nor do I intend to ever. Too much salt for this guy.
In fact, they ought to call these blood-pressure jacking machines Freshwich Direct.
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