I bought some frozen sticky rice wraps from Fairway Market; they're made in Vancouver. Made a quick vid about how I'm unapologetic about eating & using #MSG & how fears of it was based on #AntiAsian #AntiChinese #racism & not solid #FoodScience.
"If the science doesn’t support MSG as a dietary villain, why did so many people come to loathe and fear it? The answer lies not in biology, but in bias. The very name “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” points to the misconception’s insidious core: it singled out Chinese cuisine (and by extension, Chinese people) as suspect. This framing tapped into old Western prejudices portraying Asian food as unhygienic, exotic, or untrustworthy. As Korean-American chef David Chang observes, avoidance of MSG became “a cultural construct” – essentially a socially accepted excuse to distrust foreign cooking under the guise of health concerns. In plainer terms, it was ignorance and xenophobia masquerading as wellness"
https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/is-msg-safe-should-i-eat-msg-racism-history-of-chinease#
#AsianMastodon #Decolonization #ChineseFood #AsianFood #FoodRacism #CulturalFoodEducation #Xenophobia #ChineseRestaurantSyndrome #AntiAsianHistory #WhitePanic #DecolonizeYourMind #FoodFacts #MoralPanic
