On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:20:18 +0000, Adam Funk >
wrote:

> On 2010-03-18, sf wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:17:10 +0000, Adam Funk >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I finally got a tube of "Taste No 5 Umami Paste" from Waitrose (UK
> >> supermarket).
> >
> > How much did this set you back?
>
> £2.99.

£2.99 = about $4.50 USD. Pricey!
>
> >> Ingredients: "Tomato purée, garlic, anchovy paste (anchovies, salt,
> >> sunflower oil), black olive, balsamic vinegar, porcini mushrooms,
> >> parmesan cheese, olive oil, vinegar, sugar salt" (i.e., no MSG as such
> >> but plenty of natural sources of glutamates[1]); "Produced in Italy
> >> for Easy Tasty Magic by Gia SPA".
> >>
> > It has to taste better than Marmite and Vegemite, but why call a
> > tomato based product Umami? Just shows what a fad umami is now to
> > quantify something like that.
>
> Probably. (ITYM "qualify".)

I wrote what I meant to write: quantify. I should have added a couple
of extra words to the sentence. "It just shows what a fad umami is
now to quantify something like that" referring to the tomato based
product. IOW, the product sounds delicious but I object to the name.

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