topic Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits? in Community Spirit

Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

id-to-post-anything — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:13:24 GMT

Arnotts are changing the formula of Tim Tams

Up till now they have used artificle colours and flavours but are now changing to natural ones.

This includes changing the colouring for colour 120 ---which is cochineal (Colour 120), which is derived from the cochineal beetle.

Yes, they are putting beetles into our biscuits. 😞

if you object ---please go to the Tim Tam page and say so

https://www.facebook.com/TimTams

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

horizon1907 — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:18:32 GMT

Yum. Still love em. I think you'll find it is in more than you realise. BTW it's not poison. 🙂

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

icyfroth — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:20:31 GMT

at least beetles are organic lol

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cherry*135 — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:25:48 GMT

Hello id

I hadn't really heard about this before. My Mum always had cochineal as a food colouring when I was young.

Arnotts, have just got into promising to use sustainable palm oil , a lot of people boycotted them for using palm oil in the past

Which flavour Timtams will have cochineal in them, only ones that are red fruit flavoured?

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

green.fields — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:28:54 GMT

Don't eat timtams so I'll be right

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lionrose.7 — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:29:01 GMT

I dont buy Biscuits now because in Australia and New Zealand they taste like cardboard.

I used to like Cheese Snaxs in NZ but they dont make them now.

I used to get my friends to bring me over packets of them when I was in Aus.

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

id-to-post-anything — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:43:07 GMT

Apparently its in the double-coated and original are involved.

so its not just red coloured ones.

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amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:08:27 GMT

Arnott's biscuits have not been the same for years, anyway. They do taste of nothing much these days.

friend of mine at school was an Arnott. They sold out and the recipes went cheap cheap cheap.

agree with you Lionrose...make biccies if I want them 🙂

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

annies_fancy_dress — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:22:46 GMT

Old news.

Do you avoid donuts with pink icing?

Do you avoid all processed food?

There are many poisonous food additives.

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

***super_nova*** — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:17:01 GMT

I am sure we all eat all sots of weevils an other critters in various food stuffs. Anyway, the ever going world population cannot be sustained on beef and lamb, and insects are very high protein and much more environmentally sound proposition.

Fried grasshopper, anyone? or Mac Bug burger?

http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/03/we-should-all-be-eating-more-insects-we-probably-wont-yet/8619/

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

thegoblinswillgetu — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:31:28 GMT

Never ate beetles in my biscuits, but did find a grub worm in my stir fry at a very popular restaurant.

Covered in cheese.

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

sineaterdoodah — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:32:10 GMT

was it tasty? 😉

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

thegoblinswillgetu — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:52:23 GMT

@sineaterdoodah wrote:
was it tasty? 😉

I don't know about tasty, but it looked awful cozy all curled up, covered in that golden yellow cheese with its little legs tucked in.

Sent it back.

Tried to tell myself all these years, that they didn't just remove the grub and bring back the same dish of stir fry.

What are the odds?

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

pollysd — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:57:00 GMT

@thegoblinswillgetu wrote:
Never ate beetles in my biscuits, but did find a grub worm in my stir fry at a very popular restaurant.

Covered in cheese.

I found worms in some biscotti once. They were in the nuts.....

never ate biscotti again. : (

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

lurker172602 — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:25:17 GMT

Far worse when you find HALF a worm in something you're eating LOL

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

lightningdance — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:47:31 GMT

I don't care for tim tams at all. My Gran used to use cochineal colouring and it never hurt any of us.

Shellac comes from the Lac beetle, aren't beetles amazing little boogers..lol.

Wonder what else they use from beetles?

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

pollysd — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:51:20 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
Far worse when you find HALF a worm in something you're eating LOL

I can't argue with you on that. LOL!!

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

cherry*135 — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:59:32 GMT

Vegetarians would want to know what has Cochineal in it.

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

amber-eyed-girl — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:40:46 GMT

@lightningdance wrote:
I don't care for tim tams at all. My Gran used to use cochineal colouring and it never hurt any of us.
Shellac comes from the Lac beetle, aren't beetles amazing little boogers..lol.
Wonder what else they use from beetles?

hmmm I googled what do we eat made from beetles, and came across this little number.

it's U.S. guidelines related, but number 4 gave me a bit of a chuckle.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennifercohen/2012/04/03/6-disgusting-things-youre-eating-and-you-dont-even-know-it/

"4. Vanilla icecream

If you’re a label-reader like me, you may see castoreum listed on vanilla & raspberry ice cream.

Ick factor: What they don’t say on the label is that castoreum is the **bleep** secretions & urine from a beaver. While not known to be harmful, knowing there’s beaver pee in your ice cream may help you cut empty calories!"

Re: Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

sineaterdoodah — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:08:29 GMT

i believe i'll stick with my beloved popsicles,lol!