On 25/05/2013 7:45 AM, dsi1 wrote:

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>> My Sore Guts
>>
>> When I was working we often went out for dinner, often to our favourite
>> Chinese restaurant. A couple times we went to it's cheaper competition.
>> They used a lot of MSG and they had a Thursday night special for $4.25
>> (this was a few years ago). There was a race back to our station. We
>> had only one toilet. I had that job for 18 years and we only went to
>> that place twice. The MSG reaction was fast and it hit all of us.
>>
>>
>
> The thing is that Chinese food contains a bunch of things that people
> don't usually eat. It's way too easy to blame the usual suspect that
> everybody thinks is guilty. My guess is that your reaction could have
> been from mycotoxins in the rice.

Yeahbut.... we used to eat Chinese food frequently. We used to eat at
the Chinese place across the road from that one a couple times a week.
It wasn't like we were were newly exposed to Chinese ingredients, and we
were eating standard Cantonese fair, nothing exotic. We all used
reactions to the high level of MSG they used.