MSG in the Box...

These 'boxes' contains MSG...
Image: Alan Parkinson

...and so does this one....
Image copyright: BBC - courtesy of Flickr group

But what is MSG ?
That's what my colleague John Lyon and I pondered as we saw the latest leg of the BBC's shipping container, which has left Brazil en route for Japan with a load of monosodium glutamate 
We looked it up...

Why was it coming from Brazil ? Why was it going to Japan ?

And we discovered that....

Oh hang on, in the spirit of geographical enquiry... Why not find out for yourself and then let us know what you think, and what geographical 'capital' you could make from the latest leg of the journey of the BBC BOX...
Please add a comment below...

Oh, and when I was a student in the 80's, this was what MSG meant to me... :)

The box also contains car parts for Russia.
Coincidentally, last night on PM on Radio 4, as well as my Twitter-friend Joe Dale talking about educational technology in the classroom, there was a report on the city of Tolyatti, where the LADA factory is located. Apparently local workers haven't been paid for weeks, and the factory is turning out cars with missing parts !

Comments