Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions
theatlantic.com26 points by fortran77 2 hours ago
26 points by fortran77 2 hours ago
Just noting that your honey is made of bug secretions.
Just noting that your milk is made of cow secretions.
Etc.
Following the bugs in your candy theme: natural red 4 is carmine, which is made from crushed insects (which are gross looking, even for insects).
How is it possible to collect enough of this stuff? Seems like it would not be financially viable product.
Honey is too, no?
Dark honey can be worse: insect secretion digested by another insect and secreted again: insection.
Quite a few candies still use it, including I think jelly beans, gums and chocolates. Candy corn is far from the standout here.
Yes, the article mentions this:
> This glaze is used on jelly beans, Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Whoppers, Lemonheads, and Sugar Babies, to name a few.
Candy corn. Farm corn to create HFCS in order to build candy that looks like corn.
I do wonder how the USA, historically speaking, came to be the creators of this stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_corn
The history section says it all. There was a fad of agriculture related candies targeted at rural customers. Jelly beans, squash shapes and so on.
Don't forget we also have circus Peanuts, gummy worms, candy ribbons, etc. Many candies have some sort of shape and design to look like non-candy things just for the novelty.
I'm old enough to remember candy cigarettes.
Same. Usually found next to the wax soda bottles. Even as a kid I thought they were objectively terrible as candy went (like a pretzel stick coated in sugar) but there was something cool and grown up about puffing a fake cigarette at age six.
True in other lands as well, such as marzipan made to look like fruit sold throughout much of Europe.
Also, chocolate eggs, coins, rabbits
It being Halloween yesterday I ate sour fizzy dracula fangs, bats and pumpkins.
Unsurprisingly, it was at the behest of investors pushing for both deregulation and massive subsidies at the same time: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781642834444/ba...
A rational government might say, "If we provide you with subsidies, we expect stricter regulatory standards." But we're a far bit past rational at this point.
I can’t read the full article, but I get a little wary of topics regarding bugs in the food—-it seems like submarine article trying to normalize certain endeavors. Same for how I’ve seen an odd number of vocal individuals who are disgusted by crustaceans.
I’m not even against eating bugs, I’ve had cricket, I’ve had fried silkworm in my own home. I love snails. I like candy corn and this new knowledge is interesting. But I see a number of converging special interests trying to goad and “gotcha” me, and that I would still like to afford some steak and eggs every now and then.
Milk is mammal secretion.
Honey is bee secretion
There are many tasty secretions
> Honey is bee secretion
...except for honeydew honey, where bees collect the secretions of aphids or other plant-sap-sucking insects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Honeydew_honey).
I already really liked candy corn, but this made me like it even more? This is awesome.
Shellac is used to finish wood surfaces as well. Ridiculously versatile stuff!
I guess the atlantic ran out of AI doom bait articles.
Does anyone outside of US/CAN during halloween eat candy corns? Pls kill it already, or replace with something superior.
I think it's mostly used as a garnish here in the US. I've met a few people who eat it. But I've also met people who eat packing peanuts, so...
Natural Red #4 is also made from bugs and a few candies use it still.
really need to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerria_lacca photos of the lac bug to get this
milk comes from cow tits.
Source?
edit: damn, seems legit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk
Also remember that cows aren't magic. It's only possible to get milk from a female cow for the same reason you can get milk from a female human. It's a female mammal which is lactating in order to produce food for its young. The cow was impregnated - it has no say in this matter - and the baby cow has been taken away (and in most cases killed) so that we can steal the milk instead. So that's... not great. Given we're apparently still murdering each other in considerable numbers in multiple wars this isn't on my top-10 "Worst things humans are doing right now" list but hey, it's not nothing.
other tits are available
Goat milk is good. I’ve never had ass milk but it is apparently expensive. Some of the most expensive cheese in the world is made from goat and ass milk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pule_cheese
So is honey? And red food colouring used in a ton of products is made out of beetles or something. We eat bugs and bug stuff.
Shrimp are water bugs. People dont seem to have any problems with those bugs, aside anaphylaxis.
Always loved Lewis Black's bit on candy corn. (NSFW Language) [0]
People think they’re doing something trying to tie common foods to bugs.
In parts of the world people regularly eat bugs and bug products, sometimes raw. We should be eating more bugs, they are a much more sustainable source of protein to grow and when processed you can’t even tell you are eating a bug. I’ve eaten cookies made of cricket flour. Delicious.
[dead]
I had to type `wtf is candy corn?` into Kagi. It sounds disgusting without needing to know there's bug juice in there.
Do you usually use "wtf" instead of "what" when doing web searches? Does it affect the results? Funny lol