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[–] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

It's psychosomatic. MSG is also in tomatoes, mushrooms, and tons of savory salted snacks such as Doritos. None of those tend to trigger the symptoms people claim to have after eating Chinese food.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    "Ranch" flavor comes basically 100% from salt and MSG. There is a microscopic amount of herbs that make next to no difference. Ask anyone who thinks MSG is bad for you if they have cut out Ranch dressing for some hilarity. (May not apply to non-Americans).

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ranch is basically garlic and onion flavor.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ranch has more salt than anything and more MSG than garlic, look at the ingredients on a pouch. Ingredients are listed by order of volume. It has more corn starch than onion. It has basically traces of anything else. I know this because I spent not a small amount of time replicating Ranch dressing.

    Although there are a hundred MSG-conspiracy-nut websites that will tell you you don't need MSG to make Ranch dressing, there is no Ranch dressing recipe that tastes anything at all like Ranch without MSG. Full stop.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    MSG is wonderful, no doubt, but the original recipe got a huge chunk of it's flavor from sour cream which was the main ingredient. Nowadays it's a mix of mayo and buttermilk instead of sour cream and doesn't taste the same.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I have a feeling there's a huge overlap between the people who complain about Chinese food and the people who raved about the Mississippi pot roast viral recipe (which has two packets of MSG-loaded seasonings in it).

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What do people claim about MSG?

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  • [+] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So, in short, they're heavily allergic to their own thought processing.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Some people do seem to confuse cognitive dissonance with being sick, and not that their fucking pathetic understanding of the world has just been challenged.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Well, let's be fair. That is just a different kind of Sickness. Kind of a difficult sense that I distinctly remember bashing my head to a couple decades ago, being so Disturbed.

    Gotta go hear that, again, NOW.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Another personal anecdote from a non-American: My parents never buy MSG. When I did, they freaked out a little then I have to explain it's not bad other than another source of sodium we need to watch. I need to point out that all of our staple liquid seasonings are filled with added MSG: soy sauce, vinegar, patis.

    Despite being Asian, this happened because my shitass country often rely on shitass recommendations from the US health department. Another example is the ban on magic sugar, which is also propaganda by US sugar manufacurers.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What is MSG made from? Could it be that they're allergic to the base and that there is a threshold? I hope to fuck you aren't a scientist and you are an amazingly shitty person.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    What isn't psychosomatic when the target is the average fucking moron?

    ... I mean, besides all the things that turn out to be real... but morons will believe anything up to and including their mumbling jibberish is a connection to God with glossolalia...

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