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Default Umami: real or bogus?

On 8/10/2015 8:47 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:06:50 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> > wrote:
>
>> I always had the i pression that umami was an idea or a pleasant impression,
>> or a feeling, not an actual physical product. I don't know where that idea came
>> from.
>>
>> N.
>> I always had the i pression that umami was an idea or a pleasant impression,
>> or a feeling, not an actual physical product.

>
> Correct.
>
>> I don't know where that idea came from.
>>

> You know how people are these days. They want a shortcut to
> reproducing it rather than learn to combine ingredients deftly until
> they create umami.
>

Caught an episode of 'Friends' yesterday in which the character Ross
claimed it was "unagi".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md-zDIxNht4

Jill