It's absolutely a culture thing.
Enterprise has an early episode, s01e17 'Fusion', which involves the ship meeting some very friendly Vulcans who don't follow the teachings of Surak and therefore not only don't suppress their emotions but don't adhere to logic as the rest of the culture do. In general this leads to some very Romulan like Vulcans and while dining with the ships captain he asks Archer if he may try some of the chicken the Enterprise chef has prepared.
It also includes the staple telepathic mindrape scene that almost all Star Trek series have when involving telepaths, but then a lot of sci-fi shows go that route for analogous reasons.
I think your example is too small in scale. Salt may be salt but it's not the smaller molecules that are the problem with synthetic food in Star Trek, it's the holistic design of the entire foodstuff and drink.
Wine isn't just alcohol, it's a lot of other intentional and sometimes unintentional ingredients prepared in specific ways then left over time to develop to certain points. Replicators likely miss something here because they are either duplicating a very limited sample previously provided, or only creating the basics and leaving the finished consumable lacking. Traditional wine varies extensively between vintages, even when made with the same ingredients and methods, but that's what many enjoy as it gives each vintage character, or soul. Meanwhile large scale batch productions of modern times lack said character/soul and may still be enjoyable by many, but every bottle under a certain brand and label will likely be the same forever, for better and worse.
even if replicated food was perfect
The problem might be it is perfect.
A replicator is probably only going to be programmed with one way to make something, be it from disassembling a previous sample or having the programming manually entered. Regardless of the method there will only be one option for "granny smith apple", so every granny smith apple is going to be the same apple and taste identical. The imperfections between apples help contribute to why they are enjoyable. Some are crisper than others , some slightly more tart, but they are all still the same kind of apple.
The synthehol problem is also likely a result of this. Real booze is a process that produces vastly differing results, wine being one of the best examples given how vintage quality varies not just across years but even just across locations. Grass fed or corn fed steak would be another.
While it would be possible to program a selection of a particular food type it may lead to memory storage issues as well as complicate power requirements if both end up being a premium, even in a futuristic utopia like the Federation.
So while replicated food works, it may only end up being 80% as good because the various imperfections that are expected no longer exist. Which is why Picard and whoever else still make real wine, why Sisko and his father still grow and cook "real" food, and will likely be more widespread in species with far more potent olfactory senses or cultural dishes such as the Klingons and Ferengi.
Meanwhile Vulcans are almost all vegetarian, Romulans don't get much screentime for consumables beyond Romulan Ale, Bajor was literally an agrarian planet before being occupied, Andoria is a ball of ice, and the Tellarites evolved from ursine so encompass a very diverse range of species and cultures who will respond to tastes differently.
Both TNG and STD have an episode focused around a social misfit character. In TNG the crew work hard to integrate him with the team and help him, he has several recurring appearances and grows as a person.
He'd go on to also be in First Contact as well as Voyager where his autism superpower helped the Federation make contact with Voyager finally.
We are talking about Reg, yes? 👀
There are already 3 more KiA boards. 3 & 4 are squatted by DrJester, 5 is a small group of disgruntled users who don't like how moderators work so they made their own treehouse where they are the moderators instead.
Nothing is stopping you from making KiA6, just don't expect a surge following simply because yet another board had been made.
Eh, I did something like that once on an old mmo php board when it started to get flooded with spam accounts, it helps things but does take some time. I assume here would be a far simpler process, however since all the the accounts in question are from other boards it's not like there will be a list to check for KiA2.win because it's "global".win accounts joining KiA2 to spam rather than being made here specifically. We're it the latter it would be easy to have some sort of gatekeeping setup like for other more spambot like issues, however the situation being what it is likely means a far more hands on approach is needed.
At one point I used to carry around a flash drive with the original 1994 X-Com game since it was like 10-15 megabytes in total. I could play it almost anywhere.
Probably could have done the same with Sid Meier's Colonisation from the same year.
So do the unliving ones, so the pattern continues.