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- FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Nothing compared to eating a hot dog.
- Ohill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29The sad thing is the bug is the most nutritious part of the candy.
- XAsmodeaNX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29But yet, it's still so tasty... Besides the image what's so bad about eating bugs anyways?
- JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Did you just compare miniscule amounts of insect parts to jizzing in someone's mouth?
Wow. Get a life. - NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Like my mom always said.
Protein - mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Bug excretions = bees wax and certain food colorings that are perfectly harmless. Get over it. Marked as lame.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12My girlfriend refuses to eat eggs, and actually gags at the sight of a raw egg, because years ago she figured out it was a chicken's period.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12There's disgusting stuff in everything you eat, its just a byproduct of the way all of our food is processed in massive factories these days. Of course this stuff is going to get it. It doesnt matter, though, because its all sterlized and in such minute quantities that it wont make you sick.
- castleking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12If it tastes good, I don't care.
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Hey if it tastes good and doesnt kill/hurt me I couldnt care less.
- arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10People have been eating insect-puke for years - It's called honey.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"aloud"
Seriously? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13nothing is wrong with it.. but someone will always mash up it with conspiracy..
- drenader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10http://www.duggmirror.com/health/Fact_Your_Halloween_Candy_Has_Insects_In_It/
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9They're a whole lot less worse for you than all the artifical colourants used in food.
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You're not fooling me one bit, mom. I'm still going out this year.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10i've never heard it in my orange juice.
- Revadarth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Mmmmm...Protein!
- Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you've ever gone wild berry picking, you know that the cost of all the yummy berries is a little protein. Ever once in a while you'd eat one with a worm. If you eat peanut butter... who boy. That stuff's just crawling... but it's all cooked and yummy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You gotta love how it makes it seems like they are intentionally mashing up insects and excerement to put in their candies.
Always a good idea to post ***** on dig these days. the quickest way to get to the front page now. - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's called the Food Defect Action Levels which sets standards for each category of food (produce, meat, etc.).
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html#intro - GregoryHarbin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Um. They have to add color somehow. Would you rather the color came from magic?
Modded down as lame. - ellimist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/bugjuice.htm
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Does your school have a class on how to use a threaded comment system?
- vcleniuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Guess there's more truth in Charlie and the Chocolate factory than I thought...
- mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ahawks
That made me laugh, thanks for sharing! - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually, it IS something I'd like to eat! I don't really care what they call it.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Fact: The best coffee beans in the world can't be enjoyed until they are processed in a specific type of monkey's stomache, and then excreted, i.e., pooped out.
We use animal parts all the time, I don't see what the big deal is, aside from disturbing the queasy people that get sick after hearing about something sick (seriously, I simply can't fathom the feeling of losing your appetite because of hearing about something disgusting). - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide NOW!!!
http://www.dhmo.org/ - Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Bug guts! Ewwwww!
I'll stick with my mercury fish. - halicon5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm so glad we only eat insects in our candy. But what about those people less fortunate than ourselves that live in less civilized cultures whom must live off the land in harmony and eat their insects without the health benefits of processed sugars and artificial colors and flavoring! We must help those people! Maybe Sally Struthers' foundation could send them some chocolate to dip their termite larva and ants.
Personally, eating insects doesn't really bother me. Chocolate covered ants are tasty and are reminiscent of cocoa Rice Crispies, except they're probably healthier. Roasted crickets taste kind of like buttered popcorn. Not sure I'd order a whole bucket of roasted crickets at the cinema though... - Blitzenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My mom always said if I ate too much candy I would come down with the bug. Now I know what she meant.
- friend18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Confectioners glaze and Shellac are two different things.
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Zein is a class of prolamine protein found in maize. It is usually manufactured as a powder from corn gluten meal.
Zein is one of the most well understood plant proteins[1] and has a variety of industrial and food uses.[2] [3] Historically it has been used in the manufacture of a wide variety of commercial products including coating paper cups, lining soda bottle caps, clothing fabric.[4], buttons, adhesives, coatings and binders. Pure zein is clear, odorless, tasteless, hard, water-insoluble, and edible, making it invaluable in processed foods and pharmaceuticals, in competition with insect shellac. It is now used as a coating for candy, nuts, fruit, pills, and other encapsulated foods and drugs. In the United States it may be labeled as "confectioner's glaze" and used as a coating on bakery products [5]or as "vegetable protein." It is classified as GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Shellac is a brittle or flaky secretion of the lac insect Coccus lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand. Freed from wood it is called "seedlac." Once it was commonly believed that shellac was a resin obtained from the wings of a bug (order Hemiptera) found in India. In actuality, shellac was obtained from the secretion of the female bug, harvested from the bark of the trees where she deposits it to provide a sticky hold on the trunk. There is a risk that the harvesting process can scoop the bug up along with the secretion, leading to its death. The natural coloration of lac residue is greatly influenced by the sap consumed by the lac insect and the season of the harvest. Generally in the trade of seedlac there are two distinct colors; the orange Bysacki and the blonde Kushmi. - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...They *are* intentionally mashing up insects. That's where food coloring comes from. Blue food coloring, for example, is made from beetle.
- DrunkenPirate34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dont care as long as it wont kill me.
- rezophonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm glad about eggs being a chicken's period, or else they'd have to a fertilized eggs, and there'd be a fetus inside... that'd be very unpleasant. What we're eating instead of a fetus is more or less the fetus' food--because a bird can't just send it through an umbilical cord.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Deary me, if you're gonna be grossed out by knowing food coloring uses insects, you're never gonna eat again when you find out what is in the rest of your food. Insects are the least of your worries.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No, confectioner's glaze is used to describe shellac glazes as well as zein glazes.
- RevJim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No wonder the Germans have such great chocolate. Bigger bugs.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=Germany&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=48.857699,10.205451&spn=0.002404,0.006738&om=1 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Both shellac and zein are labeled as "confectioner's glaze". According to what I've read, most companies use shellac-based confectioner's glaze.
- jaadfoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you eat shelled pistachios and ever take the time to inspect the nuts, you're quite guaranteed to find a few roasted insect bodies. It caused me some slight hesitation the first time, but I overcame it because they taste so damn good. Now I don't look at the nuts before I eat them.
- WickedDrag0oN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If your willing to eat a hotdog what the ***** are you complaining about...
- Alllala, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, there is already one other person on here that did his/her research, and realized that Confectioners Glaze ISN'T "beetle juice"... and Yes, we do eat lots of bug and animal bits in pretty much anything not grown and processed ourselves, DON'T go spreading a digg that says FACT!!! when it's not. And thanks friend18 for posting that :) found it about the same time.
Have a good one. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes! Fly eggs are aloud in orange juice!
Don't you hear them screaming for help?
You mean you don't?
Am I the only one? - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was terrible, but it made me smile. :P
- LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4And if you dont get nasty sick afterwards, and you don't from this stuff, so who cares?
- a10webb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It's not a hoax pdrolet. I'm in an entomolgy class this semester, and we already learned about certain colorings that are used in food that come straight from certain insects. So what, they let alot more slip through with meat.
- MatthewK, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4I guess that's why they say TRICK or treat.....
- whiteyMcBrown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Everyone's reactions are hilarious... "yeah.. so what? Hot dogs blah blah blah".... no guys.. it's gross. Just because hot dogs are gross doesn't mean bugs in candy aren't gross. I don't want the colouring to come from magic, but I expect candies in north america not to contain things that north americans find gross. Find something else.
- neoform, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1JeffH:
did you hear me comparing it? he say "if it tastes good, who cares", i responded to that.
maybe you need to get a life. -
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