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It says that's monosodium glutamate ("MSG"), a somewhat controversial flavor-enhancer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate.

You should be able to find it in any decently stocked grocery store, I'd imagine.

If that fails check any Chinese/Asian food stores, they often have it in larger packs.



To be fair, I was poking fun at the encoding in the document.

That being said, where I live this is called E621, but I probably wont rush out in search for it, I dont even particularly like mc food :\


Oh. It was just a single '?' the first time I read it in the article (i.e. "Accent?"), so I (of course) assumed your quoting was making it even worse, but ignored that. :)




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