Are you ok with eating bugs?

I love red velvet cake and just learned that red food dye is made up of crushed Cochineal insects 🙃 That's the natural option. The alternatives are synthetic such as being made from coal tar sludge.... Wtf? Why is the food dye industry so far behind in evolving to better alternatives?

I always knew bugs were used in makeup products but kept forgetting cause traumatic facts often get shoved away in my head. So if you're like me who loves red velvet and makeup, we probably have ate pounds of crushed bugs by now 🙃

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-food-dye-cochineal-bugs_n_56fafd25e4b083f5c605f3dd

I'm not a huge fan of any red foods tbh especially not red velvet cake or cupcakes. I do however love chocolate covered cockroaches and chocolate covered grasshoppers. So I'm ok with eating bugs.

Edit: unless it's red meat. That's the only red food I'll eat. And I hope that ain't got no bugs in it.

Yes, after cooking them! Only tried fried grasshoppers so far, but I’m fascinated by insects, and found the idea of eating some of them equally fascinating.

I sometimes imagine eating some big juicy white worms (beetle larvae)when I’m actually eating prawns, and this makes me savour them even more! I also imagine, with plenty of detail, farming such worms underground on a large scale to feed the mankind. Must be some Aqua Mercury perversity.

There was a very good BBC program about bug eating a few years ago, I really enjoyed it. One scene is still vivid in my memory. Young Chinese schoolchildren in a village, collecting crickets and bringing them to school. The dinner lady was then cooking and serving them as their main school meal.

The children seemed to enjoy them with rice. After they emptied their plates, they run outside towards some ice cream van….desert was coming! Except for one child….probably a Taurus, hehe….who decided to take an extra portion of crickets. Who cares about dessert when they can have crunchy bugs….ice cream can wait 😀

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OMG….not my dream guy because he’s annoying, but that…..that is definitely MY DREAM WORM!!!!!

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I love red velvet cake and just learned that red food dye is made up of crushed Cochineal insects 🙃 That's the natural option. The alternatives are synthetic such as being made from coal tar sludge.... Wtf? Why is the food dye industry so far behind in evolving to better alternatives?

I always knew bugs were used in makeup products but kept forgetting cause traumatic facts often get shoved away in my head. So if you're like me who loves red velvet and makeup, we probably have ate pounds of crushed bugs by now 🙃

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-food-dye-cochineal-bugs_n_56fafd25e4b083f5c605f3dd

The more I understand about the health and the human body they less I care about things like that.

If my body can process it and use it, I'm cool.

The thing about artificial ingredients is your body maybe able to process and waste it yet too much over works your organs and body. They start doing a halfass job with other tasks. May also contribute to cancer if the chemical on a molecular level interacts with your cells in a way that is damaging to them or a bad substitution. ie, all artificial sweeteners.

Another good example, certain dyes interacting with some people's brain chemistry causing ADHD symptoms. Businesses can't be trusted. The FDA is a toothless lion. Nothing gets foxed without lawsuits now a days😌

So more crushed bugs please....and strange fungi and plant based poisons🙃

Flaming hot Cheetos too!!

Real red velvet cake gets its color from beet juice

Mmmmm Protein

I don't mind the worms in tequila or fruit, but I stopped eating pork because of the worms in that and salmonella in chicken bothers me a lot. There are way too many ways to get sick eating animal products.

But I have tried those ants that taste like lemon. They are small and don't have squirting, squishy parts. I will not try any bug that will burst like a cherry tomato. They have to be pretty simple to chew.

We all eat lobster, the cockroach of the ocean.

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Wow, awesome ejaculation, dude. Heh-heh-heh!

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Not going to eat them, but aren’t they pretty? Imagine the glossy green velvet cakes one could make with them 😃