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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: MSG in restaurants
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 23:34:27 EST
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In article <242@imagen.UUCP> jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel) writes:
>     Similar question:  Does anyone know anything about how widespread the
>use of Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) REALLY is?
>     I've heard it said that restaurants using this must post a notice to
>this effect.  I don't know if that's a Federal law or a state law in 
>California or elsewhere (or just a bogus rumor).  In any case, I've never
>seen such a notice on the menu or in the window or elsewhere at any
>restaurant -- including Chinese restaurants, which are allegedly the
>biggest users of MSG.  (Anyone know if this is true?)
>     Occasionally I ask a server if MSG is used.  They never know.

Most(?) Chinese restaurants will prepare the food without MSG if asked.  The
waiters usually give you a strange look, though.  I'll never forget the one
time when the food came, all my friends were given their dinner, and I was
given an empty bowl!  The waiter said, "One bowl, no MSG."  My real food came
a minute later.  As a connoisseur of great humor, I was overjoyed and left a
big tip.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720