Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2018-05-09 5:22 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 4:25:59 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I never used to worry about it. My co-workers and I used to go
> > > out for Chinese food frequently and never had a problem. Then we
> > > tried a place we had never been to before. They had a combo
> > > dinner at a price it was hard to say know to. There was something
> > > in that food that did a number on our guts. It was way too fast
> > > to be food poisoning. We got back to work and there was a mad
> > > rush for the one bathroom and people begging others to hurry
> > > before they lost it. One of the guys was sensitive to MSG and
> > > had a bad headache.
> >
> > It's fairly obvious that MSG had no part in this horrible
> > experience. That you got food poisoning in a Chinese restaurant is
> > not surprising at all. Take it from me, you don't want to know what
> > goes on back there in the kitchen. It's a risk we all take when
> > eating pake kaukau.
>
> I discounted food poisoning because it came on much too soon.
> Something in that meal loosened everyone's bowels, and it was pretty
> much a one time very large, loose movement. Then we were fine.
> >

Actually, food poisoning will be faster than MSG metabolization.