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

[pollysd]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:

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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!"

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I really wish I hadn't have clicked on that link.  

You know there really is something to be said for the old saying "ignorance is bliss". lol

 

[amber-eyed-girl]

Well...

there will be similar guidelines here I expect. But beaver pee was a new one.

[boris1gary]

why bother with biscuits, save time and go straight for the beetles.

[amber-eyed-girl]

[sineaterdoodah]

polly,my sweet,popsicles,i'm telling you. plus you can use the leftover that dripped as a luscious hair gel,lol!!

[amber-eyed-girl]

There ya go Sin.

my favorite icecream is mango.

[sineaterdoodah]

i'm a blood orange sorbet fan,when i eat something other than a popsicle/icee pop.

thank you! 🙂

[amber-eyed-girl]

Ooooh

I love blood orange too!

blood orange anything is yum!!

[sineaterdoodah]

if you ever get to florida,there's a place on clearwater beach that makes THE best blood orange gelato i've ever had! i gorge myself every trip,and regret it,lol,but the taste is worth the regret! 

after 5 years of visits,the little old italian guy who owns it now calls me by name,lol!well..sort of... he pronounces it as it was marie,he's adorable!

[annies_fancy_dress]

THis thread is a really incentive to make homemade biscuits/icecream/cake etc.

Let's all get get cooking. I'm gonna start a new thread!