Haha...... no, they are here as retirees and are financially self-sufficient, and I never believed in the MSG theory/problem until I dined at a Thai restaurant here with a couple of Thai friends and the first time I felt flulike symptoms coming on even before I finished the whole meal, but dismissed it as just another bug in the air. However we ate at the same restaurant a few days later and I had the same feeling and for a couple of days I was a bit rough, as the saying goes, so when my friends wanted to go back to this restaurant, I accompanied them but didn't have anything cooked, however I did manage to look around the edge of the kitchen where the "cook" was preparing the food and noticed that he had a large metal bowl fixed above the cooking area into which he would dip his ladle and scoop out what turned out to be a large amount of MSG, and added it to the cooking food. The Thais were used to it, but I wasn't and I never went back and even now another couple of friends always say, in Thai, "no MSG" when they order food at any restaurant and if the food is delivered and they can tell if MSG has been added, they send it back. In summary small amounts of MSG I can handle, but large amounts do make me feel like I have flulike symptoms for a couple of days.
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