Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

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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

[thegoblinswillgetu]

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

Covered in cheese.

[sineaterdoodah]

was it tasty? 😉

[thegoblinswillgetu]

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@sineaterdoodah wrote:

was it tasty? 😉

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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?

[pollysd]

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@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.

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

never ate biscotti again. : (

[lurker172602]

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

[lightningdance]

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?

[pollysd]

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

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

[cherry*135]

Vegetarians would want to know what has Cochineal in it.

[amber-eyed-girl]

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@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?

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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-e...

"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!"

[sineaterdoodah]

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