After a year of voting, Lays Potato Chip fans have officially named Cheesy Garlic Bread as the winner of the “Do Us a Flavor” promotion, in which real Lays customers submitted their very best flavor ideas. According to ABC News, nearly 3.8 million fan flavor ideas were submitted, generating over a million votes on Facebook and Twitter. The Cheesy Garlic Bread flavor faced steep competition from Chicken & Waffles, which fans said tasted like maple syrup, and Sriracha, modeled after the hot sauce often found in Thai food, before ultimately taking top prize. “I have three kids and they’re always hungry,” said Wisconsin children’s librarian Karen Weber-Mendham, who submitted the winning flavor. “I figured if they love it [cheesy garlic bread] that much, then everyone else will too.” Cheesy Garlic Bread chips will remain on store shelves at least until the end of the year, if not longer, and Weber-Mendham will receive a prize of either $1 million or one percent of the sales of Cheesy Garlic Bread chips, whichever is higher.
MSG Isn’t Harmful, But Anti-MSG Propaganda Is
Thursday, January 26, 2023
In 1968, Chinese-American physician Robert Ho Man Kwok penned what he thought was a lighthearted letter to The New England Journal of Medicine. He wrote of experiencing numbness, palpitations, and weakness after eating in Chinese restaurants in the US, and wondered whether the monosodium glutamate used by the cooks here might be behind his strange illness. The consequences of Kwok’s letter were far-reaching and devastating. MSG, then a common food enhancer, was immediately tagged as a toxin in the public eye, a move supported by flawed “research”, and was removed from nearly every commercially-available food found on store shelves.
