Scary ingredients

Billgar · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: Scary ingredients

Every now and again, sometimes more often than not you come accross a weird ingredient in what you are easting....like shave fish or orange peels. I know this happens to other too, so let me know some weird things and where they come from.

The shaved fish was in seaweed which i guess makes sense....orange peels are in A1 sauce which i cant afford anymore.

Koku · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject:

I think orange peel is actually in a few flavorings. I would not consider it scary. As for scary ingredients in food, I am going to say the crushed beetle larva (Red # somethign) is high up on that.
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Archaic · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject:

Yeah I actually like the taste of orange, and thus the peels must retain some of that flavoring. Whats scary is that fish scales are common in lipsticks and it used to be that rubber was used in bubble gum! Imagine chewing a tire and you're almost there.

Koorlic · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject:

i think that the yellow die in mountian dew that lowers your sperm count i think thats scary
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Koku · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:

Yellow dye number 5 is found in many, many things and for the most part is actually less harmful then it is made out to seem. You see sperm is made very quickly and the little lost from yellow 5 is quickly recovered.
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Archaic · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

Hrmm it appears that we already forgot the truly scary stuff; mold and algae. Any dairy that is not in milk form most likely has its share of either mold of algae and that I find scary and gross. I mean, blue cheese is ONLY mold really and that explains why it is so incredibly icky.

Koku · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

There is actually a forbidden cheese that has live grubs in it. It is suppose to have a really strong taste. It is also very very hard to find, and not found at all in US.
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chippit · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

I was watching something on the food network once about how something is made, I'm pretty sure it was jimmies/sprinkles, they use bugs to color them or make them shine either way there are bugs in them.
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Koku · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

I am not surprised by the amount of bugs in food. I mean Chocolate has bugs in it too, just small pieces. It is something we just have to get used to. They are good for us anyways (for the most part), so no need to worry about them.
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Billgar · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

Yeah even the fda doesnt prohibit roaches and stuff there is just a certain amount that is passable.

Archaic · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

Yes I mean if you really look at things closely like that you can then say that there is cow crap in hamburgers, especially from fast food places. As for hotdogs... well let us just say that no part of the animal is wasted. Almost makes you want to be a vegetarian.

Beanbaker · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

Koku, you talking about red 40?

Anyways, the orange peel stuff, would it make more sense if it was orange zest, which is peels shaved off?

Nothing really scares me, but I find haggis horrifying. The ingredients may not be chemicals, but it just sounds nasty...

Delilah · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:38 am Post subject:

A1 has raisin puree in it...O_O
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Lord_Obagon · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:27 am Post subject:

This topic made me think of just one dish right off the bat, the scorpion mountain. It is a large cake that makes the shape of a volcano, with a sweet sauce in a little pool on the top that overflows onto the sides. Oh and there are live scorpions all over the thing. You are supposed to pick up the scorpions by the tail, duck them in the sauce and then eat them. Also, they still have their front pincers.
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Koku · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: