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From: billw@Navajo.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: Vegatable Dip (really MSG)
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 21:33:53 EDT
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> > Americanised stuff that is full of MSG, and sugar, and all that crap
> > that "improves" the flavor.  <cough>  I doubt that you will find much
> > in *authentic* Chinese food.
> > 
> 
> 	I wonder about this simply because every Oriental grocery I've
> ever been in sells MSG in one and five POUND bags. *Somebody* must be
> using a helluva lot of the stuff.

It's not true.  MSG is heavilly used is "authentic" chinese cooking.
It is probably only in the US that MSG-free chinese food is trendy - I
suspect that CRS is rather like not being able to digest milk - if
you've been fed MSG in your food since you were little, it won't bother
you at all.  A paragraph in a chinese cook book (by a chinese person)
said something to the effect of "None of the recipes in this book call
for MSG,since so many americans seem to react badly to it, and when
using only the freshest ingredients it is not really necessary.
However, in China, you would not be thought trendy or healthy if you
did not use MSG in your cooking, you would merely be thought strange."

BillW