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maerynaire · 4 months ago

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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS AN UMAMI TASTEBUD

ALL TASTEBUDS TASTE ALL FLAVORS

Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

#my sleeper agent phrase got activated #mad about umami too #IT'S THE FUCKING JAPANESE WORD FOR SAVORY #'umami' wasn't fucking 'discovered' food fucking tasted like that before that one guy in japan coined the word as a neologism #and he only did it for marketing reasons #None of you fuckers would be using the word if kikkoman didn't run that ad in 2007 #savory it's savory it's fucking savory #japan isn't a magical fucking place that has an inherently deeper grasp of concepts stop fetishizing their language for the love of CHRIST #It's exactly the same as using french to sound fancier and more important STOP IT #would you call it sarriette???#pretentious ass food network #anyway msg is fine

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