Back in the olden days when I was a waiter at a celebrity restaurant in LA called the Melting Pot on La Cienega Blvd., everyone from Streisand, Donna Summer and Liza Minnelli to Jon Voigt, Tom Jones and Clive Davis frequented the place - every night. It was the height of the MSG disinformation era when people were convinced that the substance, among other ills, caused migraine headaches. It didn't. The Melting Pot's food was so delicious precisely because MSG was in everything, so when people asked, "Is there MSG in that? I'm allergic!" I said "Of course not!"
Later on, NITRATES were claimed to be the poison du jour in our food. And today, everyone is supposedly gluten intolerant or whatever.
Recently a friend hosted friends from California, one of whom upon being invited to dinner proclaimed loudly and often that he was vegan and therefore would bring his own food rather than eat the host's (delicious) meat-food. He brought a fucking chicken sandwich—no lie. Too many Sad Sacks seek attention via their so-called food allergies and recently-adopted beliefs. They're full of shit. Their crappy diet overall is their real problem.
Here's a link to an article in ESQUIRE magazine about MSG. Read it or not. But if you are bored silly with your chicken breast-broccoli-rice diet, adding a little MSG will make these same foods come alive again.
https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a23566452/its-time-for-america-to-fall-back-in-love-with-msg/
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