I don't like MSG and we certainly don't use it at home. But, when I walk into a restaurant that serves food with MSG I don't make a fuss about it. What's a little MSG every now and then, anyway, considering that a lot of Asians have been taking it all their life and have lived to the hundreds? Unless you're already sick and dying of a lot of other things to begin with.

I find that people who raise their eyebrows at and are vociferously against MSG are some of the most pretentious people I've ever known.