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- From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
- Subject: Re: Yaohan...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.003933.18312@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 00:39:33 GMT
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- In article <1jsn7b$i39@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry
- Robertson) writes:
- >In article <1johin$21t@agate.berkeley.edu> bhchan@soda.berkeley.edu (Billy H.
- >Chan) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan22.055329.17532@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- >underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
- >>>Sounds like too much Monosodium Glutamate. Try some Japanese, Korean, or
- >>>American food, for a change.
- >>>MSG is nasty stuff; only shifty people use that.
- >But Dwight, do you assume I never eat Japanese, Korean, or American food?
-
- Now that I look back on my statement, perhaps, I think that I overstepped
- myself. I meant to say that Mr. Robertson should increase his consumption
- of those foods but should proportionally decrease his consumption of foods
- from a culture that uses a heck of a lot of MSG.
-
- >Anyway, plenty of those foods are laced with MSG. A warning to people going
-
- Yes. If one looks at the ingredients of some American foods, one finds
- that they too are tainted with MSG. If I recollect correctly, "Accent"
- is a flavoring that is almost purely MSG.
-
- My point is that Japanese, Korean, and American foods, on average, have
- much less MSG. Sure, this depends on the one who prepares the food; she
- could opt to use MSG or not.
-
- But, at restaurants, Japanese, Korean, and American foods tend to contain
- much less MSG than foods from a certain other culture.
-
- >to Japan, most of the small-bottle "power" drinks sold for Y300-Y600 is
- >*loaded* with MSG. My brother drinks it because he claims he gets highs off
- >of the MSg in them.
-
- That's not a good sign. When nutritionists tell us to lower our sodium
- intake, they mean not only the sodium in salt but in other things as well
- --MSG, for example.
-
- >Mexican food, I don't know of any that uses MSG. Save for American-made
- >salsas. Which means, Mexicans are God's chosen naturalistic people.
-
- Whatever.
-
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