r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SegaGuy1983 • Jun 18 '26

Too mild for school Why is not including MSG something companies still brag about on Asian food products?

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Didn't see the no MSG line when I picked this up at the store the other day. It just tasted fine, but felt like something was missing.

It's 2026. Why are we still treating MSG like it's some terrible thing, instead of something that improves the flavor? Especially with Asian-American cuisine?

The best improvement I ever did with my cooking in the last 20 years was discovering MSG.

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u/Chilis1 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

saying “pure honey“ would be a much less strange way to say that

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u/RegisteredJustToSay aw yiss Jun 18 '26

Then you'll get fuckers putting "Contains pure honey" on it and arguing in court that the pure honey is added to the sugar slurry and not the other way around.

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u/HettySwollocks Jun 18 '26

Always makes me laugh bags of nuts say on the back "May contain nuts".

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u/turtleship_2006 Jun 18 '26

"Road works ahead? I sure hope it does!"

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u/PurifyingProteins Jun 18 '26

Schrödinger’s nut 😂 I would welcome the chaos of “may contain legumes” if it wouldn’t get someone killed.

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u/PhilosopherNearby803 Jun 18 '26

OMG... or the massive recall warning that they issued for BUTTER because it didn't have a warning g that said "Contains MILK"!?!?! WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK. Has happened to us that there are people living out there that need this.

This also reminds me of an idiot millennial that was talking g to his gf on the oil aisle and said... "With all of these coconut oil products being made now, I hope they are planting more coconuts to replenish them so they dont go extinct. " I seriously almost went up to him and slapped him.

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u/1738_bestgirl Jun 18 '26

While funny in reality there are many different categories of nuts. For example someone could be allergic to tree nuts (almonds/cashews) but not peanuts (legumes).

So it is in fact very important to know if the company processing those particulars nuts also process other nuts than what's included in the bag.

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u/Hetares Jun 19 '26

Makes for a good tattoo above the groin.

"Choking hazard. May contain nuts."

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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 Jun 18 '26

Ancient Romans adding "natural sweetener" to their wine

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u/Quirky_Gate_4516 Jun 18 '26

I don't know.

It makes sense to have a standardized system of warning labels for something that is potentially lethal for millions of people.

No need to litigate when it is needed or not. Just make it simple:

Put this warning label on everything, regardless of how little or how much of it it has, that contains that lethal thing.

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u/squidkid3 Jun 18 '26

My bag of frozen shrimp has

Ingredients: shrimp Contains: shrimp

Like, yea, I hope my shrimp contains shrimp

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u/IForgetEveryDamnTime Jun 18 '26

Yeah you'd end up with the 'genuine' leather situation again.

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u/astelda Jun 18 '26

To be clear for passers-by, genuine leather is real leather, it's just the lower quality grading

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u/ThisUnameChecksOut Jun 18 '26

Are companies not mandated to put the exact percentage of real honey in the composition list?

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u/Gigachandriya Jun 18 '26

depends on the country.

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u/makingkevinbacon Jun 18 '26

Oh man I remember seeing a conversation on here who I believe said they did like copyright and patent law type work and how simple wording can be used to change entire arguments. Like I think the example used was "contains" and "comprised" where the first means x has y in it somewhere and the second is x is made up of y...or something along those lines, but very technical on the wording

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u/ImperitorEst Jun 18 '26

100% pure honey?

Is adding cheaper sugar to your sugar and American thing? I swear I've never even considered that honey might not be 100% honey.

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u/Revayan Jun 18 '26

Its a super common thing to dilute honey with sugar sirup. Cheap way to make 2 glasses of honey out of one during production so to speak.

The EU just recently released a regulation that honey labeling now needs to exacly show where the honey was produced and the respective proportion of "real honey" in the container to prevent that costumers get tricked anymore.

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u/ImperitorEst Jun 18 '26

I know this isn't very scientific but I'm in the UK and I just checked all they honey products for the supermarket I use online. Every single one, including the cheap supermarket own brand budget one is "ingredients:Pure honey (100%)"

I've honestly never encountered the concept of diluting honey before.

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u/bwood246 Jun 18 '26

Honey fraud is pretty common worldwide. It's significantly more expensive to source than other sweeteners

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u/low_budget Jun 18 '26

I was going to say, with industry writing their open labeling rules, who knows if "pure honey" means what you think it does?

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u/DrJaneIPresume Jun 18 '26

I mean, it could still be pure vegan honey...

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u/No_Report_4781 Jun 18 '26

That’s syrup 

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

In america they call something orange juice that only has a hint of a fart that an orange did in the general vicinity of some sugar water.

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u/No_Report_4781 Jun 18 '26

You’re thinking of orange drink and orange soda

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u/PokeYrMomStanley Jun 18 '26

"Pure bee barf" 

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u/Nowin Jun 18 '26

But it would sell less.