How brilliant goes the rest of the world.  

But time has passed now and it happened quite a long time ago now where it must have become profitable to advertise your foods as being no added msg, ie no synthetic msg.  That makes me think there must be a lot of people who are intolerant of it - in that if it were a fad rather than a real issue the sales would not be so affected when it comes to such a terrific flavour enhancer as msg.  Personally I would not have stopped eating those chips if it wasn't that I had to.

I am an extreme case - I went from pass the msg laden salt and vinegar flavoured chips to the full on worst level of anaphylactic shock overnight - it happened after eating a spring roll out of the freezer section of my local supermarket, it was made in China.

That was at least 30 years ago and the consequences from eating that spring roll have been huge and I see myself a bit like a canary down the mines - yes there are millions and millions of people sniffing on that orange scent right now - my guess is that it will have to be adjusted, just like the recipes for flavour enhancers have been. 

Everything is natural including plastic if you want to see it like that but there is a huge difference between a substance that is made from a recipe that involves not just taking blood of bat and eye of toad but a recipe that is based in chemical elements instead of things.  

It's rude to the seaweed, crushing, obliterating.  it's rude to all of us, it's foolish and above all it is stinking stupid.  oh sorry I didn't mean to say that aloud.. what I meant to say is that when we hippies talk about organic and natural there are simple real meaning to those terms - it's boundary setting if you will.  

And it's got nothing to do with the manipulative use of those words by advertisers and influencers.  Just an instinctive inherited behaviour.  A nice orange grafted onto a dwarf root stock - yes I can handle that, I will grow it in a pot and we'll both like it.  A human ear grafted onto a mouse's back - no I can't handle that, it's way too distressing.