"jake" > wrote in message
. nl...
> Charles Gifford wrote:
> > "jake" > wrote
> >
> >>Does it help to add that MSG has never had a bad name in The
> >>Netherlands- it seems to be an Anglosaxon scare (to me0?
> >
> >
> > Angles and Saxons are both Germanic peoples as are the Nederlanders.
>
> Yet, the term AnglsoSaxon is not typcally used for the Netherlands.

That's true yet the common useage of "Anglo-Saxon" is also incorrect.
Eitherway my comment is valid.

> The
> > reaction to MSG is an individual thing and not a cultural or racial
thing.
> >
> The only peopel I have ever heard talk about the supposed dangers of MSG
> were North American or Australian.

I don't doubt it for a minute. Americans, Canadians and Australians tend to
be more free to gripe about things than the nice Netherlanders. <smile>

> In Holland, it isn't talked about.
> That's what I meant by cultural. Doe that clarify things?

Yes. I understand what you are saying. But any reaction to MSG is not
cultural. However, as you pointed out, the complaints about MSG are more
common in certain cultures. It is not that the "reaction" to MSG is more
common in certain cultures but, rather, complaining is.

Charlie