David Chang listening to white people complain about MSG in chinese food making them sick and then giving them a ton of Doritos and Pringles and Ruffles that all have MSG and having them eat it, experience nothing, then watching them try to explain the difference is high performance art.
xenophobia. the reason is xenophobia. with a healthy dose of racism.
So it’s not MSG. Good.
White people are racist. No doubt.
But maybe there’s something else in Chinese restaurant food that gives some people a headache.
I get a headache from Irish soda bread and certain brands of violet-flavored candy. I love violet-flavored candy. I do probably have some xenophobia towards Irish Americans. Either way, the headaches are real.that’s called psychosomatic symptoms which basically means you let your racism/xenophobia make you actually sick, congrats, you deserve it
How do you just come out and say you’re xenophobic like that omggg
I’ve literally never heard of MSG until I started actively listening to White People speak about “ethnic” food and it’s hilarious because I’ve been eating Chinese food my entire life…. no headaches.
…. what’s…. what’s msg?
MSG is a flavor enhancement powder (like salt but not salt idk never seen it outside youtube recipe vids) used in some asian countries, some people think it is bad for your health, but mostly is their racism speaking
Didn’t the complaints thing come from some scientist in the 70s writing a paper purely for racist reasons or something?
A bit earlier than that, but yes:
But MSG’s conquest of the planet hit a major bump in April 1968,
when, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a Dr Ho Man Kwok wrote a
chatty article, not specifically about MSG, whose knock-on effects were
to panic the food industry. ‘I have experienced a strange syndrome
whenever I have eaten out in a Chinese restaurant, especially one that
served northern Chinese food. The syndrome, which usually begins 15 to
20 minutes after I have eaten the first dish, lasts for about two hours,
without hangover effect. The most prominent symptoms are numbness at
the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back,
general weakness and palpitations…’And so was born Chinese restaurant syndrome (CRS) and a
medico-academic industry dedicated to the researching and publicising of
the dangers of MSG – the foreign migrant contaminating American
kitchens. Shortly after Dr Ho came Dr John Olney at Washington
University, who in 1969 injected and force-fed newborn mice with huge
doses of up to four grams/kg bodyweight of MSG. He reported that they
suffered brain lesions and claimed that the MSG found in just one bowl
of tinned soup would do the same to the brain of a two-year-old.Other scientists were testing MSG and finding no evidence of harm –
in one 1970 study 11 humans ate up to 147 grams of the stuff every day
for six weeks without any adverse reactions. At the University of
Western Sydney the researchers concluded, tersely: ‘Chinese restaurant
syndrome is an anecdote applied to a variety of postprandial illnesses;
rigorous and realistic scientific evidence linking the syndrome to MSG
could not be found.’Science has still not found a convincing explanation for CRS: indeed,
some researchers suggest it may well be to do with the other things
diners have imbibed there – peanuts, shellfish, large amounts of lager.
Others say that fear of MSG is a form of mass psychosis – you suffer the
symptoms you’ve been told to worry about.The fact is that, since the eighties, mainstream science has got
bored of MSG. Some research continues; in 2002, for example, New
Scientist got very excited over a report that MSG might damage your
eyesight, after Japanese scientists announced that they had produced
retinal thinning in baby rats fed with MSG. It turned out they were
putting 20 grams of MSG in every 100g of rat food – an amazing amount,
given that, in the UK, we adults consume about four grams of it each a
week. (One project took people who were convinced their asthma was
caused by MSG and fed them up to six grams of it a day, without
ill-effects). However, at no time has any official body, governmental or
academic, ever found it necessary to warn humans against consuming MSG.[source]
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