I should really not Google marshmallows while eating them...

[Gahars]

Would you say this news has made you marsh-mellow?

 

[Ethevion]

I haven't eaten marshmallows since I was a kid and now I really don't plan on ever eating them.

 

[Veho]

And you should probably stay away from gummy bears too.

 

[Chary]

Don't go googling what's in any food. If you keep doing that, you'll soon learn that nearly every piece of food has something ridiculously disgusting in it.

 

[Veho]

Don't go googling what's in any food. If you keep doing that, you'll soon learn that nearly every piece of food has something ridiculously disgusting in it.

Like raspberry and strawberry flavoring. Do not google it.

 

[Eerpow]

Anyone want to know the permitted amounts of insects and mice hair allowed in food production?

Spoiler

1 mice hair and about 60 insect fragments per 100g of chocolate on average.
In every 100g wheat it's 2 hairs instead, there's no way to avoid it. We eat like 2 pounds of insects each year this way.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

And to think there are cultures out there that willingly eat insects! SO GROSS!

 

[FAST6191]

And to think there are cultures out there that willingly eat insects! SO GROSS!

They are quite clean if done right, high in energy and nice stuff, do not require nearly as much feeding as mammal, bird and fish farming, can be done in conditions where mammal, bird and fish farming is not so easy (including significantly less area) and are generally quite edible. To that end what is wrong with insects?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

They are quite clean if done right, high in energy and nice stuff, do not require nearly as much feeding as mammal, bird and fish farming, can be done in conditions where mammal, bird and fish farming is not so easy (including significantly less area) and are generally quite edible. To that end what is wrong with insects?

Nothing, my post was making fun of others. Sarcasm, eh?

 

[totalnoob617]

That's what I was eating. Damn, that powdered cow horn is so good... especially in s'mores.

well at least you didnt google "blue waffle"

but you can make your own marshmallow really easy, not marshmallows ,more like fluff but a little firmer ,not as firm as marshmallows and much better than fluff,
without gelatin

i did it before you just heat sugar and water and maybe cornsyrup in a pan ,and beat egg whites till soft peaks form then beat in the sugar syrup ,and add a little vanilla

 

[Ritsuki]

I'm pretty sure you can find marshmallows made with agar instead of gelatin.

 

[BORTZ]

Best not google how hot dogs are made, either.


There are vegetarian marshmallows too, made with gelling agents free of animal bits, like agar agar for example.

Or Chicken Nuggets... Or Jello...

 

[FAST6191]

Or Jello...

What is wrong with how jelly/jello is made?

 

[BORTZ]

What is wrong with how jelly/jello is made?

Well i mean its not terrible, but its made out of acid soaked/ground up animal bones.

 

[PityOnU]

So vegetarians can't eat marshmallows or other gummy foods?

 

[gamefan5]

Ehhh... knew about it and not surprised.
You'd be surprised the amount of things we eat when it doesn't appear to be what we think it is.
For example,
When u eat something that has an artificial vanilla flavor, more than 90% of the time, castoreum is used.
What is castoreum? It's a substance produced from a beaver's anal glands. Meaning it comes out from it's ass.
Think twice before eating ice cream! XD

 

[FAST6191]

Well i mean its not terrible, but its made out of acid soaked/ground up animal bones.

Vinegar (ethanoic acid), pineapple juice and lemon/lime juice (citric acid) are all used as preservatives/curatives for various things.

Boiling skin, tendons and bones is also how you make stock, a lot of soup bases and part of how you make better gravy. Bone marrow works in much the same way and is eaten in its own right in a great many places (and not even just the "somewhere in Asia" thing).

I can understand it might seem somewhat odd for those among us that might not have but to pluck a bird, gut a fish or skin a rabbit but practically it is no different to grinding wheat.

 

[KingVamp]

Or you could go vegetarian and use agar agar instead of jelatin.

Recipe: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~connelly/marshmallows.html

Usually a vegetarian substitute isn't as good, if at all, then the real thing.

I would hate to be a vegetarian.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

So vegetarians can't eat marshmallows or other gummy foods?

Of course they can, they can eat anything they want. They're not allergic to animal by-products. But yes, gelatin, and a bunch of other crap, is made from animal by-products.

 

[weavile001]

Ehhh... knew about it and not surprised.
You'd be surprised the amount of things we eat when it doesn't appear to be what we think it is.
For example,
When u eat something that has an artificial vanilla flavor, more than 90% of the time, castoreum is used.
What is castoreum? It's a substance produced from a beaver's anal glands. Meaning it comes out from it's ass.
Think twice before eating ice cream! XD

There Is a Special Place in Hell For People like you.......

 

[Xarsah16]

I know what the other 1% in marshmallows is-

Spoiler

Just kidding, I actually don't.

XD