At the grocery store I only see "MSG Free" labels on soy sauce, ramen, noodles, etc. but nothing for chips, burritos, burgers, etc.

I know there are people who dislike MSG, but the MSG scare was also racist scaremongering, and I wonder how many people think they dislike MSG because the media said Chinese food will kill them while gulping down a big mac and bag of doritos every day

  • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    The idea of MSG being bad basically came from a bunch of racist white idiots who would go to a Chinese restaurant, get headaches/other bad feelings a few days later for completely unrelated causes and then try to blame it on the food they ate a few days back because they were racist idiots. They even literally called it "Chinese restaurant syndrome".

    This eventually spiraled into a full on hate for MSG and now it's hard to find in Asian American food and restaurants because so many customers are convinced it's bad they lose profits despite there being no good reason not to.