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[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, I heard two unsubstantiated rumors about McDonald's food:

  1. It used kangaroo meat (not sure why this was a claim)
  2. It mixed in nicotine (to make the food more addictive)

I doubt that either are true, but if the latter were maybe it would answer your question.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure you'd have to label nicotine content and age restrict it no matter how it's consumed.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Agreed, but I don't think the urban legend was claiming that they were doing this legitimately.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They don't mix in nicotine, no need for all of that when MSG exists. They do mix in MSG to the meats and cheeses. Pretty much all fast food does, because it makes it addictive, and tasty.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, I don't think I knew what MSG was, so this reasoning would have been lost on me.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When I was a kid the racist "MSG in Chinese food" panic was happening. I knew about Chinese salt when I started cooking around 6 or 7

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Having a reaction to a food additive is not racist. You are parroting the bots spread forth by a $7B industry. MSG reaction is real. Do we call people who get food allergies racist?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yet, everyone I know that had so called reactions to MSG in Chinese food could eat Pizza Hut and McDonald's which both use MSG and they never had a 'reaction.'

They also haven't complained about MSG since the late '80s. There may be some people that have an actual allergy to MSG, but I have yet to meet one, and I have a much higher sampling of people to pull from than most.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't have Chinese food until my wife, then girlfriend, introduced it to me in my twenties. A Chinese restaurant was opened in my small hometown when I was in my teens, but we never partook. I'm not sure why.

I didn't cook until, again, my teens, but at that point I literally had to ask how to boil water for hot dogs. My family was fairly progressive, so "Chinese salt" never came up, but MSG was definitely beyond me.

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