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https://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11247178%255E421,00.html
You might not after reading this article.
Ninja (shhhh, don't tell)
420 posts
Location: Truro, UK
oh man thats harsh!
theres hardly anything left i can eat anymore! i'd kill for a chocolate mousse right now, but they're always made with either beef or pork gelatine.
I can drink fanta fruit twist though! woohoo! i rang coke and they said its ok for veggies and vegans. some coke products have got fish extract in them, ie coke and fanta.
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hmmm so what! in the end there is no actual rule that says what is and what isnt the norm to eat, get over it!
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Location: Scotland
dont pink wafers have beetles in them too?
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just realised that could have sounded rude, im sorry! didnt mean it to
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I don't care. I rarely get Smarties and I luuuurrrve them. Our lame-o country doesn't get Smarties.
-Mike
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meh.
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Location: Southern California, USA
as someone who's very aware that mcdonalds takes meat, processes it til it's a dough-ey sort of deal, then adds meat flavoring to it to make it taste somewhat like a burger and still goes to mcdonalds....
i'm not the least bit surprised and will continue to eat those delicious beetle-colored smarties
just my point of view, eating certain things is just as grody as eating other things, the illusion that some things are disgusting no matter how many times they're processed/etc but that eating some things raw is ok doesn't exist in my mind
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Location: Netherlands
I studied colourmaking etc. for school. That red dye thing isn't new for me. It's also used in lipstick and other stuff that's dyed pink. I don't know if Pink....? knows this.
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euwww! well i love smarties n macdonalds n tuna n everything i shudnt!! sorry, cant stop, addicted!!
[tuna bit is random]
thanx for the warning tho!!
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Location: brizvegas, Australia
i like smarties...but i haven't looked at that link yet!!
is that coke & fanta & fish bits for real?!
i don't drink fanta at all (cos it's yuck) & i don't drink coke very often (though i just had a glass...first in while!), but that's wierd! fish extract?! what the?!why does jsut about everything have to have animal bits in it!? grr
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Ninja (shhhh, don't tell)
420 posts
Location: Truro, UK
Pyrowill, the reason I don't eat things like smarties is because I'm a vegetarian, not 'coz its icky 'coz they're beetles!
So many sweets and things you wouldn't expect contain animal products, its a nightmare.
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Location: brizvegas, Australia
i just read the article....
EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
lucky i don't drink guinness...or any beer!! that is just gross.
*runs away to find a site that lists food that appears vego but isn't*
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
The thing about the smarties really donest bother me. and i prefer m&ms anyway.
but the guinness thing bothers me - who would drink guinness ANYWAY!!! lol. i think its foul. ok, so i could stomach it to be polite. but i really dont like it. I'd rather drink heinakin.
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Meh - Strange, but not surprising...
Hisorically the colour purple was made from Squid ink which was quite tricky and expensive to get hold of - and so was usually only worn by rich people.
Nothing wrong with eating insects really, we are omnivores (unless we chose otherwise).
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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I don't care. I rarely get Smarties and I luuuurrrve them. Our lame-o country doesn't get Smarties.
yes, we do, they just have another name because the name "smarties" was already taken by other popular candy (which are not unlike small sweet tarts instead of a foriegn variety of m&m).
and point in fact - edible red die for ANY solid candy food is almost certainly made of this same stuff. Anyone remember that m&ms didn't have red for ages and ages? that is because the old red dye was radioactive, and there was no substitute till this crushed bug dye came along.
and guess what, edible chemicals of all kinds that you ingest all the time come from all sorts of things this "gross" and worse. In the end, I'd rather be eating something organic that comes from dead bugs than something completely artificial and/or radioactive, wouldn't you?
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Location: manchester, uk
it's old news re smarties for me too. They can't export them to many countries at all cos one or other of the colours in banned for being horrible in most countries in the world. and the red dye beatle thing is worse than it first appears, because the red extract only come from PREGNANT ones! It's not used that much in food these days cos it's remarkably expensive.
crushed pregnant beatle juice.....yum yum kiddies....eat it aaaaaaaaaaaaall up
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Location: brizvegas, Australia
ew gross!!
i have so got to stop reading the new posts on this thread! it just gets more and more yuck!! 
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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Location: without class distinction, Australia
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beatle juice
made me think of betleguse (or however its slept)
from now on im going to think red smarties are incredibly funny!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
from now on i'm going to think red smarties are going to grow legs & run away!!
*runs away before anyone notices her previous post about not coming back to this thread!*
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Frankly, I'm all over a die made from beetle carpaces as opposed to a dye made from petroleum. Petroleum is gross, too.
-Mike
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
E number info
some of these are perfectly harmless food colourings or flavourings derived from natural sources. though many are non-vegetarian, genetically modified, and/or in some cases cause extreme allergic reactions
the problem is that there are now close to 1500 different e-numbers, too many to remember which are good & bad.
best to avoid them all and just eat non-processed foods.
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i'm sure i've heard about the beetle thing in that particular colouring before...
don't see the point in red smarties anyway, they should get rid of them altogether and just fill the tubes completely with orange ones
do they have bugs in??
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Chemicals are chemicals, whether they're made in a lab or extracted from beetles they're still various atoms arranged in particular ways. Does it really make much difference whether they come from an "organic" soure, like vegitables, an "icky" source, like bugs, or a "clinical" source, like a lab?
Also, brewers have been putting fish scales into beer for centurarys to put a head on it.
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Redneck Woman
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Location: Texas, Yeeeeehaaaaaw, USA
What does it matter any way? I mean it is jsut a bug. I have seen people eat way worse...Yea, I do kind of think that it is gross, but, bugs eat bugs, animals eat animals, why caint we?
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Keeper of the Spitfire
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Location: Calgary Canada
I've also heard about this before.
For myself, I don't really care about it too much- I'll still keep eating smarties now and again.
But it kinda sucks for vegetarians. I mean, some foods go to such an effort to say whether they are or aren't suitable for vegetarians. It seems that sweet manufacturers aren't bothered about doing this.
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Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
What I wanna know is when insects became animals?
And really, is eating .005mg of a dried bug that big a deal? Being Vegetarian or Vegan is understandable to an extent but youd think you could let a thing or two slide from time to time. Maybe thats just me though as Ill eat anything so long as it tastes good, or has eyes.
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I guess there are implications for Jews as bugs aren't kosher.
Has anyone seen that thing where they estimate the amount of creepy things that you swallow when you're asleep? You get through something like 10 spiders and a bunch of gnats each year on average.
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ok cows thats ok because they have a face and [censored] and people can feel sorry for that, but beetles...COME ON! theres billions of them.
i wonder if vegitarians freak out if they accedentaly step on an ant.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Austin, Texas, USA
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What I wanna know is when insects became animals?
And really, is eating .005mg of a dried bug that big a deal? Being Vegetarian or Vegan is understandable to an extent but youd think you could let a thing or two slide from time to time. Maybe thats just me though as Ill eat anything so long as it tastes good, or has eyes.
insects have been animals pretty much since the definition of animal was originated:
There are plants, animals, and microorganisms. Everything is one of those three. Insects clearly are not plants or microorganisms, so...
Icon does have a good point with the rest of his post though - absolutely anything processed for sale (flour, corn meal, etc) has a certain level of contaminantes - mostly wayward bugs - that are allowed and do exist. You, I, and even vegitarians and Jews consume far more insect material this way than you ever could by eating red smarties. Almost nothing is purely vegitarian or cosher because at the very least there will be millions of microscopic mites on it - this is true even of a freshly scrubbed carrot of the purest origin. You just can't be pedantic when it comes to food.
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