The soy sauce packet in your takeout bag isn't soy sauce. The biggest maker, Kari-Out in New Jersey, lists water, salt, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, caramel color and sodium benzoate. No fermentation, no brewing. It's made in a couple of days by boiling defatted soy meal in hydrochloric acid, neutralizing it, then adding color and corn syrup so it looks and tastes close enough.
A lot of the bottles on the grocery shelf are the same thing. Kikkoman and the Japanese government went to the UN food standards body years ago and asked that the chemical version not be allowed to use the name soy sauce. The hydrolyzed protein industry and the USDA pushed back and it stayed. The brewed ones say naturally brewed on the label. If the bottle doesn't say it, it isn't.
My girlfriend once told me something during an argument that I never forgot.
She said, “You always tell me to talk to you when something hurts me, but whenever I do, you defend your intentions instead of trying to understand why I was hurt.”
“You don’t have to agree with every feeling I have. But you should care enough to acknowledge it. Your intentions may explain why you did something, but they don’t erase the impact it had on me.”
Then she said something that stayed with me:
@beforebarter@thatgirlrc@Finestapple02 Insecure women cannot hold genuine relationships with women they secretly envy. Melanie is being herself, Aniya is wearing a mask and studying Melanie that’s why she’s sinceres “bestie” bc sincere is Aniya’s #1 type
@Sheksteroidszn@malikgeathers Women call each other or even babies chocolate drops all the time. But somehow when a man does it it’s odd. Yall keep moving the goal post. Just for him to turn around and pull two dark brown girls from casa.
Kaniya era blinded me so bad🤣She gave off a slow burn and KC really took his time with her. He was always the one reaching in for a kiss or some sort of affection then i watched her go all out to prove a point which i didn't know she had in her🤣KC is not her type #LoveIslandUSA
@liilangge@_iamjamila I fear your sister is the male centered one and only feels validated when a mixed or non-black man is into her. It’s giving insecure and pickmeisha
I agree. Because if we sit down for our first date and I ask you how you feel about Meg Thee Stallion, you should 1000% get up and leave and block my number.
@AmerikahDbeauty@Redacted925@DamnDeShawn That’s exactly what he said tho, “you won’t find that anywhere else” meanwhile in Philly kids do all of what you just said and more. 😂 y’all are not the only urban city in the country.