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minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 days agoMOST food is gross if you think about it too hard. never stopped me before 🤷♀️
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days agoHoney? Bee vomit. Syrup? Tree blood. Hotdogs? You don’t even wanna know. We’ll turn literal cat shit into expensive coffee.
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoRed food colouring or cosmetics? It’s called Carmine, and is made from dissolved insects.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoI was thinking of shellac. Comes from beetles. It’s also used in edible waxes, like what apples are coated in, IIRC.
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoSimply handling raw chicken should convince anyone of this.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoRead a great comment of reddit years ago about how a little girl so loved eating chicken, until she realized she was eating a, ya know, chicken.
minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoi have an aunt who is still like this at 60 and she gets mad at you if you point out the meat she’s eating is animal flesh
MOST food is gross if you think about it too hard. never stopped me before 🤷♀️
Honey? Bee vomit.
Syrup? Tree blood.
Hotdogs? You don’t even wanna know.
We’ll turn literal cat shit into expensive coffee.
what’s this about coffee??
Red food colouring or cosmetics? It’s called Carmine, and is made from dissolved insects.
I was thinking of shellac. Comes from beetles. It’s also used in edible waxes, like what apples are coated in, IIRC.
Simply handling raw chicken should convince anyone of this.
Read a great comment of reddit years ago about how a little girl so loved eating chicken, until she realized she was eating a, ya know, chicken.
i have an aunt who is still like this at 60 and she gets mad at you if you point out the meat she’s eating is animal flesh