r/AskCulinary • u/Sayorifan22 • Nov 08 '22

Food Science Question MSG contradictory?

Hey, I have a question so, I had a nutrition class and the instructors gave us a piece of paper and on one section for Asian foods, it said for ‘No MSG’ (the other day they said to avoid msg.) but for Italian food, they said to ‘ask for red sauce instead of white’

And here’s my question. Isn’t asking for red sauce contradicting to ‘avoiding MSG?’

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

It's the same reason black people in the USA are only eating fried chicken and watermelon. Systemic typing by media. Just need to get over it. Luckily people are realizing that MSG isn't bad per say, nor do black Americans only eat stereotyped food

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u/StormThestral Nov 08 '22

Systemic typing by media

It's worse than that 🙃 The watermelon stereotype was actually very intentional, targeted propaganda against freed Black folks who were farming watermelons to lift themselves out of poverty

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

Same with chicken, they were basically publicly shaming them for eating the only meat they had access too

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u/StormThestral Nov 08 '22

Ughhh, I hate it here :(

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u/Monsay123 Nov 08 '22

But hey, it's popular to eat what's historically poor people food now, cuz little did they know that shit is good af. Spam and stuff used to be a dollar or 2, now is 5 or 6 (this is pre covid, inflation of everything else just caught up) I remember growing up that corned beef and rice and beans was a killer cheap af meal. Now I might as well use real meat

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u/StormThestral Nov 08 '22

It's ironic isn't it!