On Thu, 10 May 2018 08:50:30 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Wed, 09 May 2018 17:18:54 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>"You'll normally see the first symptoms of food poisoning within one
>or two hours"
><https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5755235/food-poisoning-beef-pork-fish-mussels/>
>
>I don't know how quickly people react to MSG.

Very few people react to MSG. MSG occurs naturally in a great many
ordinary foods, even naturally occurs in breast milk. Those who claim
MSG made them ill need to blame something else, probably food
poisoning.