You say Aubergine, I say Eggplant
I've never posted a wank before. YAY me!

I bring you Eggplant Wank.

It's a recipe. For eggplant. But go to the comments!

Yes, that inoffensive vegetable brings the wankers to the table. See them argue over MSG! Sugar! Disparage Americans, Brits, and New Zealanders!

A highlight:

"It doesn't take much to bring the Nazi tree huggers out. OH!!! Don't eat MSG!! OH!!! Save a tree, but could you hold my place in the tree line whle I get an abortion!!!

FWIW, the recipe is pretty good :D

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	cathowl 2007-05-26 07:26 am UTC (link)
	An allergy to MSG? That's one I hadn't heard before. I'm sorry to hear it's painful for you. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	purest_chaos 2007-05-26 07:52 am UTC (link)
	Apparently it's common enough to get a listing in the health section on the MSG article on Wikipedia. Not as an allergy but lists it as an MSG symptom complex. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cathowl
2007-05-26 08:15 am UTC (link)

*Reads the Wikipedia article* "An unknown percentage of the population may react to MSG and develop MSG symptom complex"

MSG symptom complex? Why can't they call it a freaking allergy? Because that's exactly what it sounds like; a food allergy. My mom gets some of those symptoms eating corn.

Why must things we're suspicious of get special names for allergies to them?

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	greenling 2007-05-26 09:49 am UTC (link)
	IIRC, because an allergy is defined much more specifically in the medical sense than in the general sense. To continue using Wikipedia, it says something about different mechanisms and restricting the use of the term to just one of them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	oar 2007-05-26 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, my dad has an MSG allergy as well. Gives him blinding headaches, generally. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	queencallipygos 2007-05-29 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	(waves) My mother gets that too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	irised 2007-06-02 02:09 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, my mum can't eat anything with MSG in it - last time she did she ended up in hospital. Can't remember the details because I was young at the time, but I remember it being fairly dramatic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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