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Is it stupidity or just ignorance.

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Ok, so the basic situation went down as follows.

A delivery I'm waiting on has just arrived so I'm standing at the shop door. A semi-regular customer and his kid have just left the Pemier next door happily chomping on Doritos and Pringles. They stop to chat and once the delivery is put on my counter the kid starts asking what I use each ingredient for. I get to the MSG and the Dad goes ballistic.

He is literally going off at me for using something he has just been shovelling into his face! When I told him such he grabs the packet and reads the ingredients, then claims "it says nothing about that poison you're using". Directly after trying and failing to pronounce monosodium glutamate.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Those people from the future….they took our jobs.

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By *uxom redCouple over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Its lack of education around ingredients, they hear of things and jump to conclusions from hearing little snippets of information.

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By *traight_no_iceMan over a year ago

Stoke

Stupidity and ignorance in equal measures.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It never fails to bemuse me that so many fab folks have angry confrontational encounters in the most innocuous of situations

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By *rs mischiefWoman over a year ago

Manchester

I have an allergy to MSG..!

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By *lex46TV/TS over a year ago

Near Wells

I'm obviously stupid. I've never heard of MSG??

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

MSG isn't even poisonous, it's a total myth. We use some when we make Chinese dishes and it's the bomb!

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By *ocusMan over a year ago

Cambridge

"MSG isn't even poisonous, it's a total myth. We use some when we make Chinese dishes and it's the bomb!"

Yep. I was going to say the same.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Just wow

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By *lex46TV/TS over a year ago

Near Wells

Every day is a school day. I've just googled it.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS over a year ago

Stockport

"I'm obviously stupid. I've never heard of MSG?? "

Mono sodium glutamate, otherwise known as seasoning salt.

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By *ood time Chris BMan over a year ago

TAUNTON AREA

"I have an allergy to MSG..!

I have an allergy to idiots

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By *lex46TV/TS over a year ago

Near Wells

"I'm obviously stupid. I've never heard of MSG??

Mono sodium glutamate, otherwise known as seasoning salt."

Thanks

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I have an allergy to MSG..!

Most people who have reactions to MSG are sodium intolerant. If you can stomach almost any hard cheese, or dried/semi dried tomato the glutamate component is not the issue. If you get the same reaction from the tomatoes, you're going to find you're most likely intolerant to the Nightshade family. Glutamates seem to have some role in exacerbating sensitivity to alkaloids in those, however there is no clear evidence why. So few people are sensitive to Nightshade.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Very few people in life are actually stupid, it's mostly ignorance and bad education I'm afraid. Whichever this was, it certainly made me laugh.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The term for this is "Agnorant" where a person is ignorant about a subject but also extremely arrogant in their opinion.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Mostly stupidity, but when combined with willful ignorance too, it's actually quite dangerous I think!

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By *orbidden eastMan over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

It shouldn’t be anything new there. But I would tend to go on the part of ignorance and not educate yourself about things

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By *urvyBi-84Man over a year ago

Lancs

"The term for this is "Agnorant" where a person is ignorant about a subject but also extremely arrogant in their opinion. "

I like that. Agnorant. I’ll remember that

My favourite thing for situations like this is to tell them of the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Tell them it is everywhere and yet is so dangerous that it can cause death if inhaled. See if they work out it is H2O…

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By *eresa_cdslutTV/TS over a year ago

Bodmin

Do see the film "Idiocracy" for that is where we are headed !

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I have an allergy to MSG..!

I have an allergy to idiots "

If you find a repellent spray can you let me know.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS over a year ago

Horsham

"Its lack of education around ingredients, they hear of things and jump to conclusions from hearing little snippets of information. "

Probably as he gets all his information from youtube, facebook or some other certified source of social media.

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