Ok, processed foods aside, what typical American restaurant dishes/items do folks here find oversalted? I don't mean by govt. guidelines, I mean by taste. I would really like some examples. I don't recall ever tasting any dish in any restaurant that was oversalted. Quite the opposite in fact especially in the past 10 years or so since salt has been increasingly villainised. I've always had to salt most all of my restaurant food, but even more lately. (Oddly, airplane meals rarely require additional salt) I didn't grow up on processed food either, and eat very little of it even today.