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From: eac@drutx.UUCP (CveticEA)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: Vegatable Dip (really MSG)
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 10:54:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 10:54:20 1985
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>>> A good way to insure headaches, dizzyness and cancer.  If your recipe
>>> needs this then there is something wrong with it.
>>> 
>>I eat Chinese food all the time, and I understand it generally has a fair
>>amount of MSG in it. I suffer neither from headaches or dizziness. Therefore
>>I can only assume your statement, as made, is a crock.

Not EVERYONE is affected by MSG, just like not everyone is allergic to
dogs.  If you are serving a large group, and you don't know for sure, your
MSG sensitive guests will appreciate it if you don't use it.  By the way,
I'm not sure that this is a small number of people.  Everyone in my family
is sensitive to it to one degree or another.  And how come it is now
popular for Chinese restaurants in San Francisco's China town to advertise
no MSG?  In general they use it so they can make a large quantity of
something with veggies in it ahead of time, and the veggies won't get
soggy.  I don't think it does much for flavor.  Public pressure is the
reason some of the restaurants avoid it.  However, most brands of soy sauce
are loaded with it.

So please don't think that because it doesn't affect you its a crock.
That's like the dentist telling me it isn't going to hurt, when I'm the
expert on that, not the dentist!

Betsy Cvetic
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