Opinion

Let them not eat salt

Mayor It’s-Good-For-Thee-But-Not-For-Me has decided that he likes salt less than he likes comfy cabs — of which he is not terribly fond, either.

Or, more precisely, he has decided that salt — like livery legroom — is not for the little people.

Mayor Poppins, er, Bloomberg is adding salt to the Health Department’s hit list — right up there with Marlboros, transfatted french fries, double-chocolate donuts and grade-school bake sales.

Specifically, Health Commissioner Thomas Farley has joined an effort to reduce sodium in prepared foods sold in the city by 25 percent by 2014.

The conventional wisdom holds that excessive dietary salt is a bad thing; it can cause heart attacks, strokes and mild mayoral derangement.

Because, really, what else would explain a mayor who likes to salt his Saltine crackers undertaking a city-wide sodium crackdown? The New York Times reported that culinary tidbit last fall, and also revealed that Bloomberg also likes burgers (yum) and burnt-bacon-and-peanut-butter sandwiches (double yum!).

He’s entitled, of course — just as he rates the Chevy Suburban SUV that whisks him to the No. 4 train each morning, while less fortunate citizens labor to jam themselves into the no-leg-or-head-room hybrid taxis Mike has mandated.

It’s good to be mayor.

You have so many choices.