That's quite worrying @Pat E, although I was unaware that MSG could cause such a reaction. I remember my younger nephew laughing when he opened a cupboard in the flat he shared with a young Chinese student ,and there was a huge bag of it. Clearly, it's a normal addition! I think it's why I don't like the food in restaurants, compared to cooking it at home. You can taste the synthetic flavour enhancement in it. I'd happily have minus 2 every day. Had a nice walk and I've marked today on the calendar - not one ar**hole encountered
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I am sensitive to MSG ... back in the 60s/70s it was called Kwok's Disease aka Chinese Restaurant syndrome, and I found I got it every time I ate at a certain restaurant. Years later I ate some noodles at a shopping mall and was badly affected. I was unable to drive home for a couple of hours. It’s a weird feeling ... as if your face and extremities are hot and ‘fizzing’.
I am quite able to eat small amounts with no effect at all.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can honestly say I've never heard of of it @Dovefromabove. I used to have Chinese meals quite often back in the day, but I never liked the taste because of the MSG. Quite worrying though
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Back in the day I quite liked the weird feeling @Fairygirl ... as long as someone else was driving home ... it was a temporary effect which wore off ... a bit like being 'a bit squiffy' ... I could still walk from the restaurant to the cinema or whatever ... but I made sure I didn't have any when I was pregnant, just in case.
The only sausages we eat are 100% pork, usually with herbs. No cocktail or Frankfurty types. No question of eating Chinese or Indian in restaurants here @Fairygirl. Dreadful. Fortunately, between the Vietnamese store in La Roche, Leclerc SM on a good day and the 'net I can get all the spices and pastes I need to cook my own without MSG and with correct spicing.
Unfortunately, after discovering to my delight that the mussels sold here are lovely, local "moules de bouchots" and not the great flabby Zeeland things usually found in Belgium, I have found they have a significant effect on my hands making them painful and stiff and sometimes locked which is no use for gardening, cooking or sewing. Good job fish doesn't have that effect.
OH has been out setting up supports and weeding beds ready for me to plant garlic and cover it with the butterfly netting to keep the chooks off. They've been helping and coming right up to his hands to see what he's pulled up. They've also demolished our last Savoy cabbage so the PSB and cavolo nero I've planted for winter and spring veggies will also need protecting. I hope they don't get too helpful when I'm bunging in the garlic cloves and shallots.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
A friend posted this elsewhere ... seems appropriate today and brought a smile to my face ... oldies are goodies after all ...
" ... Donald Trump sends a fact finder to Ireland. He meets a good old lad in Kerry.
"Tell me, sir - you have your elections, they take place and there is a winner. We're having a lot of trouble with ours - what system do you use?"
"Well it's like this - you go into a big room, and you are given a sheet of paper with a lot of names on it. You then go into a little cubicle where nobody can see what you're doing - there's a pencil there, and you put a cross against the name you like the look of. You then put your sheet of paper into a box, and the name that gets the most crosses is the winner."
"Well that all seems pretty straightforward - but aren't you worried about security?"
"Oh no - we've thought about that. We tie a piece of string onto the end of the pencil..."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We're just back from a lovely lunch with BIL & SIL at a very large GC cafe in the Cotswolds, which was halfway between us. Unfortunately they'd booked us an outside table - good for Covid precautions, not so good as it was very chilly today. We haven't seen them for a year, so it was good to get together. We were supposed to meet up at their son's wedding last July which of course had to be cancelled. Didn't have time or the inclination really to wander round the GC but did see they had lovely square grey Apta pots at half price - will probably regret not getting one.
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I'd happily have minus 2 every day.
Had a nice walk and I've marked today on the calendar - not one ar**hole encountered
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Edited to add this https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001126.htm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately, after discovering to my delight that the mussels sold here are lovely, local "moules de bouchots" and not the great flabby Zeeland things usually found in Belgium, I have found they have a significant effect on my hands making them painful and stiff and sometimes locked which is no use for gardening, cooking or sewing. Good job fish doesn't have that effect.
OH has been out setting up supports and weeding beds ready for me to plant garlic and cover it with the butterfly netting to keep the chooks off. They've been helping and coming right up to his hands to see what he's pulled up. They've also demolished our last Savoy cabbage so the PSB and cavolo nero I've planted for winter and spring veggies will also need protecting. I hope they don't get too helpful when I'm bunging in the garlic cloves and shallots.
" ... Donald Trump sends a fact finder to Ireland. He meets a good old lad in Kerry.
"Tell me, sir - you have your elections, they take place and there is a winner. We're having a lot of trouble with ours - what system do you use?"
"Well it's like this - you go into a big room, and you are given a sheet of paper with a lot of names on it. You then go into a little cubicle where nobody can see what you're doing - there's a pencil there, and you put a cross against the name you like the look of. You then put your sheet of paper into a box, and the name that gets the most crosses is the winner."
"Well that all seems pretty straightforward - but aren't you worried about security?"
"Oh no - we've thought about that. We tie a piece of string onto the end of the pencil..."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Didn't have time or the inclination really to wander round the GC but did see they had lovely square grey Apta pots at half price - will probably regret not getting one.