Here it goes … many of you complain about the use of MSG in food but I think it escaped our English, NZ and Australian friends that the ‘mites’ are actually yeast extracts that are also used in organic foods to replace MSG.
Be aware that yeast extract is a hidden source of MSG (glutamates) in your food and do not have to be on the ingredient list.
Those of you that complain about MSG but eat happily ‘mites’ on your breakfast sandwich … :roflmao: but hey, you get your ‘umami’ …
Be carefull with what you say here as it seems we are as guilty as sin.
Remember that song called “Down Under” from Men at work?
Quote:
[quote]Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, “Do you speak-a my language?”
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich [/quote]
I never ever heard of vegemite sandwiches back in the ol’ country
I thought he was full of mussels 
No reaction = weird 
:ohreally:
that stuff is disgusting anyway… who eats that without force?
Vegemite makes you smarter. It’s scientifically proven.
Glutamate does not equal MSG. MSG is a crystallized salt of glutamic acid.
[quote=“Charlie Phillips”]Vegemite makes you smarter. It’s scientifically proven.
Glutamate does not equal MSG. MSG is a crystallized salt of glutamic acid.[/quote]
Who cares about the details … salt … crystal … salt brine … liquid :ohreally:
[quote=“Belgian Pie”][quote=“Charlie Phillips”]Vegemite makes you smarter. It’s scientifically proven.
Glutamate does not equal MSG. MSG is a crystallized salt of glutamic acid.[/quote]
Who cares about the details … salt … crystal … salt brine … liquid :ohreally:[/quote]
We do.
I thought you were a baker. Surely ye ken the devil is in the detail…
We were a very poor family when I was growing. I had Marmite on toast with weak tea for breakfast before going to school for 4 days of the week. Once a week my Mum would make sardines or scrambled eggs (if we could afford it).
I remember it fondly. I really couldn’t give a flying fuck about how much MSG it contains. 
[quote=“jimipresley”]We were a very poor family when I was growing. I had Marmite on toast with weak tea for breakfast before going to school for 4 days of the week. Once a week my Mum would make sardines or scrambled eggs (if we could afford it).
I remember it fondly. I really couldn’t give a flying fuck about how much MSG it contains. [/quote]
You were lucky. We were each given a piece of toast Monday. Had to lick vegemite off it Monday to Thursday, then eat the toast Friday. And tea: 1 bag between 8 of us for a month!
MSG? Kids today don’t know how lucky they are.
Everything in moderation , just watch the salt intake I guess.
Yeah, sure. If you never grew up with any of those culinary delights. They’re all fucking deelishuss!!
MSG is ambrosia. I add it to all my food, and not once has anyone complained.
Even those who say they are sensitive to MSG show absolutely no ill effects, so it’s all bullshit anyway.
Carry on, you happy little Vegemites.
We were really poor. Mum only put Marmite on the table every last Sunday of the month. Xmas and Easter we were allowed to open the jar and smell it. Each passing of Haley’s comet, we were allowed one smathering on our toast. And every millennia, we were allowed to do that with a knife instead of a fork. If she was in a good mood, we could take the lid off first.
You had a table? Luxury!
We didn’t even have a floor! We just clung to the walls, or the place we imagined the walls would’ve been if we’d had 'em.
I’m with uro. I bet 95% of the people who claim to get bad reactions to MSG are just complainerpants.
And why would anyone willingly ingest Vegemite or Marmite when they could eat peanut butter?! :loco:
We called it a table, but really it was . . . no. Forget it. I can’t beat yours. :bravo:
If it were the MSG causing the bad reactions, this would be clinically reproducible, but according to the Wiki article on MSG, [quote]a controlled double-blind multicenter clinical trial failed to demonstrate the relationship between MSG Symptom complex and the consumption of MSG in individuals that believed to react adversely against MSG…
inconsistent. Symptoms were not observed when MSG was given with food.[20][21][22][23]
Adequately controlling for experimental bias includes a double-blind placebo-controlled experimental design (DBPC) and the application in capsules because of the strong and unique after-taste of glutamates.[21] In a study performed by Tarasoff and Kelly (1993) 71 fasting participants were given 5 g of MSG and then administered a standard breakfast. There was only one reaction, and it was to the placebo in a self-identified MSG sensitive individual.[18] In a different study done by Geha et al. (2000), they tested the reaction of 130 subjects that reported sensitivity to MSG. Multiple DBPC trials were performed and only subjects with at least two symptoms proceeded. Only 2 people out of the whole study responded in all four challenges. Because of this low prevalence, the researchers concluded that the response to MSG was not reproducible.[24][/quote]
In other words, either something else is causing the symptoms, or the symptoms are imagined.
Djeez, I wonder how the lot of you could ever afford a plane ticket out here? 
They all swam here out of desperation. It was either that, or live with their Father’s denigrating remarks ringing in their ears for the rest of their lives. Those that knew who their Dad was, at any rate.
… which reminds me of an old story. All true, I tells ya!
“Mum, I hate Dad’s guts.”
“Well then dear, Push them to the side of the plate, But make sure you finish your vegetables!”
What on earth is wrong with salt?
That’s how the west was one!
Huzzah!