Jordan Jensen
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Well, it's like monosodium glutamate.
Everybody was scared of that for the longest time.
And Bourdain and I were talking about it, and he's like, no.
He's like, it makes the food taste better.
I go, what do you think about all the stuff about it being bad for you?
He goes, I think it's bullshit.
It's just a – Monosodium glutamate is like what they would always put – the thing was it was always – you would hear that it was used in Chinese food.
But it was used in a lot of food.
I remember when I worked at Newport Creamery, they used to have some laying around.
I think – God, what was the name of the stuff?
Oh, yeah, you go into places where you can – MSG is every time?
Yeah, but there was a name that – there was a product –
MSG enhances umami flavors with less sodium, about one-third the sodium of salt.