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We hired a new part time nanny recently, and she has been amazing for the last two weeks, taking care of our son and teaching him so many new things. A great relationship in the making and I couldn't be happier! A couple of days ago she sent me a text asking if she could make us dinner, which we have never asked her to do and never even considered asking. I called her, and after a quick discussion we agreed she could make something that she specializes in as long as it didn't interfere with taking care of our son.
After work, I get home, and I can smell something amazing when I stop off the elevator. Sure enough, it's my apartment, and she's there with my son, and dinner is made, and the kitchen is spotless, and I'm beyond excited and happy. Nobody has ever done this before for us (except mom). So we have a wonderful evening, eat this spectacular Dominican rice dish, and are able to spend more time interacting with our son instead of cooking and cleaning. We feel rich.
Then, a few minutes later, a headache slams me like I've never experienced before. This intense throbbing at the back of my head, and it hurts bad. I tell my wife this, and she says she feels the same, so we take the rare Tylenol, drink a lot of water, and we feel better by bedtime.
The next morning, the nanny returns and I tell her how amazing it was to have dinner prepared and that I couldn't be more grateful. I said that the dinner tasted incredibly good, and asked if she was able to find all the seasonings in my cabinet (I keep this thing stocked), and she said she had to get a few things, which she proceeds to show me. All three seasonings she added were basically pure MSG. She didn't know it, she was just doing what her mom always did.
I didn't say that we all got insane headaches, but I'm pretty sure it was the MSG. Until this happened, I was of the concrete belief that anyone who reported MSG caused headaches was just making shit up, part of the placebo effect, but now I'm a solid believer that it does indeed cause dehydration and headaches. Yikes!
- Presumbly the times you've used your three MSG-containing seasonings, you've not suffered headaches? Implies quantity used, more than anything.Nairn
- if she used shit-tons, you'd have a high sodium load, but because it's not chloride, you'd not notice 'til it was (very quickly) absorbed.Nairn
- i thought this was going somewhere else entirely. (that's what you get when you re-read all of miller's books)Gnash
- MSG is found naturally, especially in Kelp seaweed, I'm not convinced it's the cause. More like the preservatives / colourings / 'Natural' flavourings...shapesalad
- Not quite - glutamate is indeed found in seaweed (and cheese, tomatoes, etc), whereas the manufactured stuff is bound to sodium to make it chemically stableNairn
- The unhealthy side of MSG is, as I suggested above, probably just because people double-dose sodium in MSG and then table salt.Nairn
- Nairn, I didn’t have msg in my cabinet. She bought it. Shapesalad, that was my thinking before this.monospaced
- We limit our table salt intake becuase the chloride has a very strong taste - MSG doesn't have that, so it's easy to OD.Nairn
- Like I said. I still think it was quick dehydration from the addition of too much msg. Not something I believed until this truly blind test.monospaced
- Ah yes, quite right - I misread that part, mono.Nairn
- She added Goya Sazón (pure msg and preservatives) and an msg based bullion, plus Goya Adobo seasoning, which is pure salt basically. Probably sodium overload.monospaced
- Jesus :\ The sad thing is, a lot of those short-cut products completely mislead in their presentation - implying natural stock ingredients, but are barelyNairn
- Lol.. I was half expecting this story ending up with you sleeping with the baby sitter..autoflavour
- I didn’t read who wrote it until the end.. not a personal dig.. just felt like that was the direction it was takingautoflavour
- I think it's the iodine that gives table salt it's strong flavour. Try seasalt/kosher salt. It's way smoother.monNom
- Thanks monNom but I always use kosher salt and that’s all I’ve got in the house.monospaced
- MSG hands down the worst thing... if doesn’t affect you now, it will later and it is debilitating, head explodes w/ blinding migraine fun!prophetone
- Stay away from sketchy soups as well like wonton soup base as it’s like mainlining it right to your brain, on like a light switchprophetone
- I had a bowl of pho today. Pretty sure that has msg in it. We will see.monospaced
- Man.. please make sure she doesn’t ever put any on your kid’s food.maquito
- Dude. Kid ate some of the rice. But he slept like a dream so...monospaced
- It could eventually catch up... first 30 yrs of my life was 100% no prob w/ wonton soup etc - if I consume any MSG now it's pulling the pin on grenadeprophetone
- I think I repeated myself, only because for me it's like the one thing that will take me down hard, it's in A LOT of food products, always reading those labels!prophetone
- Why not do an A/B test here and mention the MSG headache and ask her to use your spices that would me a similar match.BonSeff
- It would be an interesting experiment
****Only if you are willing to go through the headache again hahaBonSeff - first world probscannonball1978
- i read on with anticipation and finished disappointed.dasohr
- Shit dude first world problem. I say lets tax mono more for those without nannies. Too much wealth heredeathboy
- I'm sorry you're poor deathboy but it's hardly mono's fault is itset
- I’m not remotely wealthy.monospaced
- And I pay a shit load of taxes. More than you, for sure, deathboy.monospaced
- so mono... can I borrow a few bux? take care of us lowly onez, brother!!PonyBoy
- She went above and beyond in the course of 2 wks, and is not live-in?notype
- Better than fiction.
The Babysitter (needs a remake for 2019)notype - just happy to see you have some sense in regard to keep what u makedeathboy
- swear so many posts seem to be about others and what they don't have. maybe im remembering wrong on wealth disparitydeathboy
- I thought this was going to be a law and order episode for a second there.noRGB
- I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm not wealthy, nor his having a part-time nanny a sign of wealth.monospaced
- Anyway, she came in this morning and reported that she has rethought her entire cooking style, and was thanking me for pointing out she doesn't need to use MSG.monospaced
- @notype, live in? I can't even afford a place where my son can have his own bedroom!monospaced
- Fight to decide who's poorestset