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The title is a bit misleading - I thought salt was the food which was being described as vanishing :-) I am not going to disagree with any of the other comment

The title is a bit misleading - I thought salt was the food which was being described as vanishing :-) I am not going to disagree with any of the other commenters. (After all, it has been said that everything you think is true about India - the exact opposite is also true somewhere in India) The question of trust is an important one, maybe even more than the issue of an economy which is developing (and hence making people more insular) - people on HN may not be aware, but there was a time (admittedly quite a few years ago) when there would be literally a news article every single day about the "biscuit bandits"- people who offered drugged cookies, which are usually called biscuits in India, and made off with the victims' valuables. I just searched online for "biscuit bandits" and found this ironic story - although I don't know if it is true. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/CBI-inspector-falls-prey-to-biscuit-bandits/articleshow/4849921.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/CBI-inspecto... CBI is like the Indian FBI. (edit: Changed funny to ironic. To answer webtechgal, I meant funny in an ironic sense. The problem had been going on for many years when this person who worked in law enforcement was victimized. If it is possible to dupe law enforcement in this way, one can only imagine how challenging it is for the regular folks)

webtechgal 10y ago
> ...and found this funny story... No offense, but if you were at the receiving end of things, you probably won't find it funny. This (the 'biscuit bandit' thing - though I'm reading it described thus for the first time), has been a menace plaguing gullible travelers on India trains for many years now. With millions of people traveling each day on thousands of routes across the length and breadth of the country, it is happy hunting grounds for the culprits. In some cases, people end up losing their life savings. Sad, shocking, but true all the same, even today.
dang 10y ago
> The title is a bit misleading - I thought salt was the food Yes, websites that append their branding slugs to article titles are a bit of a pain. We've got a list of them that get removed automatically but I'm not sure if NPR's food blog rates an inclusion. Edit: once a year is often enough. Added. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=npr%20salt&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=npr%20salt&sort=byDate&dateRan...
calvinbhai 10y ago
Me too! I read the title, and thought something like "rich people food with lots of salt/sodium is vanishing from the IR". Made no sense. Understood only in the second paragraph :)

webtechgal 10y ago

> ...and found this funny story... No offense, but if you were at the receiving end of things, you probably won't find it funny. This (the 'biscuit bandit' thing - though I'm reading it described thus for the first time), has been a menace plaguing gullible travelers on India trains for many years now. With millions of people traveling each day on thousands of routes across the length and breadth of the country, it is happy hunting grounds for the culprits. In some cases, people end up losing their life savings. Sad, shocking, but true all the same, even today.

dang 10y ago

> The title is a bit misleading - I thought salt was the food Yes, websites that append their branding slugs to article titles are a bit of a pain. We've got a list of them that get removed automatically but I'm not sure if NPR's food blog rates an inclusion. Edit: once a year is often enough. Added. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=npr%20salt&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=npr%20salt&sort=byDate&dateRan...

calvinbhai 10y ago

Me too! I read the title, and thought something like "rich people food with lots of salt/sodium is vanishing from the IR". Made no sense. Understood only in the second paragraph :)