Mark Thorson wrote:
>brooklyn1 wrote:
>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>> >Adam Funk wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I found some old MSG powder in the pantry, which I must have bought a
>> >> few years ago and forgotten about. It's in an airtight container, but
>> >> not in the original package, so I have no "best before" or other
>> >> date. It still has a strong savoury flavour. Does this stuff expire
>> >> in any meaningful sense?
>> >
>> >No.
>>
>> White powder with a strong savory flavor in an unmarked container is
>> probably not MSG.
>
>It's not cocaine. That has a bitter taste.
>What did you have in mind?

Gross stupidity... anyone who would keep a white powder in an unlabled
container, especially in their kitchen, is a pinhead of the highest
order.... perhaps it's rat poison.

I've no idea what it is but MSG tastes about half as salty as ordinary
table salt and in the mouth will impart a slight raw meat flavor (the
flavor of your own flesh) but there is no savoriness.... savory adj. A
term describing food that is not sweet but rather piquant and
full-flavored.

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