MSG & Umami Hats

Umami was named on 25 July 1908, when Kikunae Ikeda extracted MSG from kelp, and Ajinomoto began selling it as a seasoning in 1909. The stigma that followed traces to a 1968 letter in the New England Journal of Medicine about "Chinese-restaurant syndrome." Reviews of the research, including one from America's Test Kitchen, have found no evidence that glutamate causes migraine or asthma, and a loud counter-movement has formed. When Omsom launched its $85 IYKYK MSG shaker set with Ajinomoto in October 2022, co-founder Vanessa Pham said MSG "should be as ubiquitous as salt and pepper." The "MSG King Of Flavour" quote already sells on T-shirts and stickers at Redbubble. These MSG and umami hats carry that pride on a dad hat. The badges are MSG and UMAMI. The sentence designs cover the king of flavor, salt's cooler brother, the salt, pepper and MSG trio, a heavy hand with the shaker, the claim that the headaches are a myth, and a grandma who used MSG and lived to 98. Mixing MSG into salt is a mainstream cooking tip now, so the wearer is in good company. This is the seasoning shaker, not the heat covered by Sichuan Mala Spicy Food Hats or the family dynamic covered by Asian Parent Emotional Damage Hats. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for the cook who seasons everything or the friend who gets one as a gift.