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  #2813525 15-Nov-2021 20:44
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MSG?

 

 

Yup. Ajinomoto is the original 100+-year-old company founded to commercialise it.

 
 
 

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  #2813643 16-Nov-2021 09:30
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networkn:

 

MSG?

 

 

Yip

 

 

I didn't realise you could still get MSG in this day and age. 





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  #2813768 16-Nov-2021 10:05
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Handsomedan:

 

I didn't realise you could still get MSG in this day and age. 

 

 

Why wouldn't you? Recent work shows MSG is not the beast people make it to be. Lots of food contains natural MSG - tomatoes (always thought why ketchup is so attractive?), anchovies (why Worcestershire sauce makes food so good?), cheeses (yummy pizzas and toasties).

 

The "Doctor" who started the whole MSG Syndrome was in it as a wager. Read more here The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok | Colgate Magazine

 

 





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  #2813779 16-Nov-2021 10:37
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Was looking at the Countdown Bricks webpage because, even though we have no small kids, the kid in me thinks the bricks are cool.

 

On the page for a $15 Starter Pack, there's no info about the Starter Pack but the product description says: "... products and their ingredients are liable to change at short notice, which may affect nutritional, country of origin, ingredient and allergen information. Therefore, you should always check product labels before consuming."

 

Didn't realise that these Bricks were meant to be eaten.





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  #2814516 17-Nov-2021 13:03
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How much longer a packet of TimTams lasts in the pantry ever since my son has left home.





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  #2814529 17-Nov-2021 13:27
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floydbloke:

 

How much longer a packet of TimTams lasts in the pantry ever since my son has left home.

 

 

My eldest tried the 'but they go off in less than a day once they're opened' line on me.

 

I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd used that same line in reference to bottles of wine...





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  #2814645 17-Nov-2021 16:37
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The malapropic mangling of English idioms in NZ.

I nearly spat out my tea today laughing out loud on reading "hare's breath" in place of "hair's breadth"!








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  #2814762 17-Nov-2021 17:46
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Geektastic: The malapropic mangling of English idioms in NZ.

I nearly spat out my tea today laughing out loud on reading "hare's breath" in place of "hair's breadth"!

 

You're just splitting hares.

 

 





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Geektastic: The malapropic mangling of English idioms in NZ.

I nearly spat out my tea today laughing out loud on reading "hare's breath" in place of "hair's breadth"!



But you're from England. The place that turned glass from a noun to a verb 😀




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  #2814797 17-Nov-2021 19:03
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floydbloke:

How much longer a packet of TimTams lasts in the pantry ever since my son has left home.



That's because, like Twinkies and roaches, they'll survive nuclear war.





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  #2815776 19-Nov-2021 15:34
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Taking a walk here made me smile at lunchtime.

 

 

 





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  #2816824 22-Nov-2021 05:44
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Rikkitic:

 

Geektastic: The malapropic mangling of English idioms in NZ.

I nearly spat out my tea today laughing out loud on reading "hare's breath" in place of "hair's breadth"!

 

You're just splitting hares.

 

 

Don’t you mean ‘spitting hares’? As in:

 

Q: How do you get rid of pubic hare?

 

A: Just spit it out.

 

So we’ve gone full circle - and have derived the meaning of that well-known, useful and legitimate expression ‘hare’s breath’. QED.





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  #2816856 22-Nov-2021 09:08
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You know what made me smile this weekend? 

 

I went to a BBQ. We adhered to the rules, and stayed outside and were under 25 people, but man it was nice to hang out with some old friends and just gas the night away like there wasn't a care in the world. 

 

We all said how much we'd missed it and apart from the awkwardness of not being able to hug one another and sitting a decent space apart (which tends to happen at a summer BBQ anyway), it really was one of the most enjoyable experiences I have had in a long time. 

 

I was quite overwhelmed at one point, as I just didn't realise what a social animal I am...boy have I missed socialising! 





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Seeing reporting that a bully of a company director got a $25k finding against him at the ERA. 


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