Fast food

a crispy chicken biscuit?

ah, a biscuit is a bread

Anyone here know anything about monosodium glutamate, any studies, etc?

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looks a bit dry to me

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Anyone here know anything about monosodium glutamate, any studies, etc?

@148 I.Q. Magical Thinker ?

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The Sixth Taste​

There is some reason to doubt the story Daniel Soar tells about the origins of the controversy around monosodium glutamate (LRB, 9 September). Public concern over the adverse effects of MSG consumption began with a letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 signed by Dr Robert Ho Man Kwok. In 2018, Howard Steel, another doctor, claimed that he had invented Dr Kwok and written the letter as a joke. However, the US radio programme This American Life debunked Steel’s claim by contacting Kwok’s family (Kwok himself died in 2014). Very recently, a writer for the Washington Post interviewed Kwok’s daughter, who explained that Kwok had written to the journal because he ‘wanted to figure out what was causing this reaction’.
Jordan Sand
Washington DC

Daniel Soar writes: The dead get the last laugh. As Jordan Sand says, two people claimed to have written the infamous letter. One died in 2014 and can’t be interrogated. The other died four years later, at the age of 97, and can’t be interrogated again. But he – Howard Steel, or Howard Steel’s ghost – can be heard speaking on that episode of This American Life. In the voicemail he left, there’s at least a record of his side of the story. It’s a bit like the old brainteaser about Portia’s caskets: either he was telling the truth, or he was lying about having lied. A hoax? Or a hoax about having perpetrated a hoax? It’s a puzzle that can never be solved. Believe whichever ghost you want to, but one of them, I find, whispers more persuasively.

Clinamenic said:

Anyone here know anything about monosodium glutamate, any studies, etc?

@148 I.Q. Magical Thinker ?

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yeah its totally fine

this is the original article sufi is referring to btw

I used to like all those rough sub-KFC chicken shops like tennessee and kansas.

A perfect day and night out for me in 2008 would be to get a long night bus to South or west London, have a full chicken burger meal, go to a squat party til 10am and then back up to Central to go to postman's pub in Kings x.

there was recently a new kfc burger called "three kings" which we saw a lot of billboards for when walking the M62 leeds-> Manchester. Never got one tho.

McDonalds smells terrible, like a cow’s just shat its pants. Needs to be banned on public transport.

KFC is full of morbidly obese schoolchildren on mobility scooters, and actually serves deep-fried pigeon and rat. Dixy Chicken is basically the Islamic KFC. Chicken Cottage sounds like some hideous NAMBLA retreat.

Burger King had the Spicy Beanburger going for it, but not a lot else. Pizza Hut use spray-on cheese (in cans) and the staff are so badly paid they gob on your food. Pizza Express is the superior man’s Pizza Hut, as you can tell by the fact HRH Prince Andrew dined there on the night he was falsely accused of sexually abusing a minor, and it also has a jazz club that’s beaten Café Oto in the ‘best live jazz venue’ category for 7 years running.

I used to like fish and chips but nobody can cook proper British chip shop chips anymore. Lost art. They’re all fried in some crappy cheap oil that turns them into cardboard.

Kebabs, Greggs and curry are the best, I reckon.

i remember as a child being repulsed from the mcdonalds smell even when i would just walk past it doors, it would make me nauseous, but i think it's like smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. it's horrible when you start but then you just start to love poisoning yourself.

i am obsessed with lamb kebabs at the moment. there is one place where the seekh kebabs are the best in the world, but a lot of plces have now changed and call them "meat kebabs" which means they could be anything.

so i've switched to getting proper shish kebabs and/or chops.

i acted in an advert for mcdonalds right after i finished university. i was in the job centre trying to sign on and a man said to me, come and audition for this advert so i did and i got the part. went to paris 1st class on the eurostar and got put up in a 5 star hotel. did one day's "work" and got paid £££

mcd's have just got rid of their coffee loyalty sticker scheme which i collected avidly for a long time, very sad

catalog said:

i am obsessed with lamb kebabs at the moment. there is one place where the seekh kebabs are the best in the world, but a lot of plces have now changed and call them "meat kebabs" which means they could be anything.

so i've switched to getting proper shish kebabs and/or chops.

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They don't eat lamb in Lisbon, really hard to get it.

it's very uncommon everywhere apart from the uk and pakistan, in my experience

woops said:

i acted in an advert for mcdonalds right after i finished university. i was in the job centre trying to sign on and a man said to me, come and audition for this advert so i did and i got the part. went to paris 1st class on the eurostar and got put up in a 5 star hotel. did one day's "work" and got paid £££

mcd's have just got rid of their coffee loyalty sticker scheme which i collected avidly for a long time, very sad

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what was your role? it is many people's dream to be scouted like that for an acting career.

catalog said:

it's very uncommon everywhere apart from the uk and pakistan, in my experience

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new zealanders eat a fair bit of it

oh yeah that's true. my mum won't buy new zealand lamb, says it's very watery.

i've never been to new zealand. would like to go. would like to go there more than oz.

the lamb kebabs are often not really lamb are they? or just a percentage of it is lamb.