Arbys, the salt house of the world

Many of you know I love Arbys. My first job was at an Arby's restaurant when I was 16 years old. I loved the food then and I still love it to this day, even though I have seen the meat before it's cooked.... not a pretty sight. My favorite sandwich is the beef n' cheddar. Three ounces of roast beef, a squirt of cheddar cheese sauce, and a dollop of red ranch dressing on a sesame seed bun. Mmmmm. I am salivating just thinking about it. Their fries are pretty good, too.

That low salt diet I'm on because of Meniere's Disease? It sucks. The RDA of sodium is 2400 milligrams. I am supposed to have about 1200 mg. Wanna know what one beef cheddar has?

1240 mg.

Of course, that's with the onion bun, which I eschew. The regular roast beef (on a sesame seed bun) is "only" 950, so I figure the beef n' cheddar on a regular bun is somewhere between those two numbers. We'll call it 1100.

So after I have a beef n' cheddar, I get 100 mg of salt for the rest of the day. Whoops. I had french fries with my beef n' cheddar. That's 570 mg.

Oh well, guess I'm going to go deaf. What'dya say?