Was chatting about tri-tip roasts on another forum and I mentioned a favorite seasoning, a brand called Spade-L Ranch, which has a good share of MSG in it. This led to comments about the "Great MSG Hoax" foisted on America starting with a fake letter to the New England Journal of Medicine by a fake "Chinese" MD investigator for a fake biomedical research center.
The letter to the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine was published, and the orthopedic surgeon from Temple University who wrote it won his $10 bet against a fellow MD who had told him orthopedic surgeons were "too dumb" to get published in the NEJM.
The media bought it hook, line and sinker, and many to this day believe that MSG is bad for you, and that it is especially bad for you in Chinese food. Every bit of it is a crock.
Here's the story:
https://news.colgate.edu/magaz...YC9qEuUX1Iq7kJeS5LuQ

Interesting!

I just took some out of town friends to the chinese market for some eye opening shopping.

They even had frozen packages of locusts.

We had an Australian neighbor, married to a lovely Philippine.

We had meals in their house very often, and he used to put so much msg on the food.

Once I asked his wife where did she find him.

He answered “listen mate! My ancestors were hand picked by His Majesty’s judges!”

He used to come to the skeet shooting range with a beer can - I think he drank a case everyday!

He said it was aiming lotion!

Sounds like a pretty hilarious neighbor.

Aromat and maggie. I forget which one is MSG.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Sounds like a pretty hilarious neighbor.

Bill,

Denis was a great guy.

Actually we had quite a few fine characters then.

The man in charge was an American from Texas called Ray.

He was a real Texas cowboy.

Wore his cowboy hat all the time.

Drove a brown American car, and always had a whisky full glass with him.

He was an alcoholic, with a nose that told the story as soon as you saw him.

We had not many cars then, no any paved roads.

We had a German called Hank - everyone else called him Hank The Wank to his face!

Great days were those!

Interesting about the MSG issue. I have followed blindly myself over the years. Rumors do get started, just like the one about cooking in aluminum pans is a cause of Alzheimer.

What's interesting is how many fads, scams and other lies permeate the food industry. So much stuff being toted as bad never was. So much being toted as good is. All goes to lobbyists, laws, govt interference, scams to feed one industry over another.

A classic example is the 'food pyramid'. Remember that? It was wrong in all ways and many still think it is truth!

Don't get me started on lobbyists, they are truly pond scum + a bane to the American citizen.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Sounds like a pretty hilarious neighbor.

Bill,

Denis was a great guy.

Actually we had quite a few fine characters then.

The man in charge was an American from Texas called Ray.

He was a real Texas cowboy.

Wore his cowboy hat all the time.

Drove a brown American car, and always had a whisky full glass with him.

He was an alcoholic, with a nose that told the story as soon as you saw him.

We had not many cars then, no any paved roads.

We had a German called Hank - everyone else called him Hank The Wank to his face!

Great days were those!

Was that UAE and what year(s)?

Sounds like wild and wooly times