Do you eat beetles with your biscuits?

[id-to-post-anything]

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

[horizon1907]

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

[icyfroth]

at least beetles are organic lol

[cherry*135]

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?

[green.fields]

Don't eat timtams so I'll be right

[lionrose.7]

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.

[id-to-post-anything]

am

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

so its not just red coloured ones.

[amber-eyed-girl]

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 🙂

[annies_fancy_dress]

Old news.

Do you avoid donuts with pink icing?

Do you avoid all processed food?

There are many poisonous food additives.

[***super_nova***]

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/