On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:24:33 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 4:03:44 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:56:15 -0800 (PST), dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 11:17:42 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:14:50 -0800 (PST), dsi1
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I got some Korean made soy sauce from the Korean mart. I got the middle price sauce of a certain brand. I've never tasted Korean soy sauce. It tasted great i.e., it tasted like Aloha shoyu.
>> >>
>> >> Aloha shoyu is one of the bad soy sauces. It's not naturally brewed.
>> >> It's a chemical concoction and contains sodium benzoate. Avoid.
>> >
>> >What makes a hydrolyzed soy sauce bad? Nothing except that people
>> >think that it is. Some people that never tasted Aloha said it was a
>> >bad thing and other people who never tasted it believed them. If it
>> >was a bad shoyu, I wouldn't use the stuff.
>>
>> Yes, you would. You'll eat anything, because you never know when the
>> Big Hawaiian Famine comes! During a famine, I'd use Aloha shoyu too.
>> Fortunately though, we have a choice in the US and Australia.
>>
>> >My guess is that soy sauce is an unimportant condiment in your life. We're experts on soy sauce. I see no reason to put my faith on clueless amateurs.
>>
>> Don't take it from me. Google is your oyster
>
>In other words, you don't know why Aloha shoyu is "bad."

Where did you get that silly idea?

>The people on this rock love the stuff because we like to pour it on rice.\
>We get to actually taste the shoyu on a neutral medium. It's a very
>smooth and not too salty, umami sensation. Tasting shoyu on rice like
>that is a good way to sample soy sauces. OTOH, the last few times in
>restaurants, we've noticed that the shoyu seems watered down. It's a
>mystery.

So you guys like bad soy sauce. What can I say? Congratulations?