I mean I'm not into sportsball but I would think a real fan would be into the game and the food is only there as an extra. All this goes to show is Fatty is using this as an excuse to gorge himself on meat and grease.
I know people who really go all out on the Super Bowl party food to the point people who don't even like sportsball show up. Scalfani is someone whose food you'd use to get people out of your house, though.
Absolutely nothing, any more than there is with salt. In its place. If you like umami/savory, it's concentrated (albeit a bit one-note) umami. Salt and savory are absolute necessities in almost all meat dishes. In fact, the GUD MEET Jagoff loves so much comes with its own.
Most of these recipes have ingredients that have MSG in them anyway, MSG is just a way to concentrate that and a nice shortcut. I usually prefer to use the natural ingredients with MSG in them, but there's nothing wrong with shaking a bit of Accent (basically MSG) into something if it's late in the cooking and just lacking that last bit of savory you want.
Emphasis: a bit.
MSG is a cheap hack that makes everything palatable. Any cook that relies on MSG is a shit cook. Plus it makes everything taste like cheap Chinese takeout.
This got more negrates than it deserves, but it's sort of like cornstarch. I don't care how good a cook you are, I mean unless you're some 3 star Michelin chef or some shit (sort of like how everyone online never bangs anything but perfect 10s), but sometimes, you get to the end of cooking something and it's just less than perfect.
And if it's not a complete trainwreck, it can be saved with a simple cheap hack. If it is, do it.
Are you saying anyone who uses fish sauce is a shit cook? Because it's packed with MSG. How about cheese for a dressing? Cheese has loads of MSG too, the more the longer it's fermented. Do you like steak? It has plenty of MSG. Mushrooms? Part of why they're good in savory dishes is, you guessed it, MSG.
And compare the Kewpie mayonnaise with MSG to the American version. It just isn't as good. Sometimes, artificially added MSG is a good thing.
MSG is just a little cheat code to add umami flavor to a dish. There's nothing wrong with it, but people tend to overuse it thanks to cooktubers like that obnoxious Uncle Roger
That's why you're better off using it by using other ingredients that already contain it, and if you have to resort to Accent, TINY amounts. Sort of like using cornstarch to thicken up gravy when you realize the gravy you need in two minutes to finish the meal is too thin but you need it in two minutes.