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leastconcern in veganpeople

I hate to ask a newbie question

Feb 11, 2009 22:28

The food colorings: yellow lake 4, blue lake 6, etc. Are they infact vegan? What the hell are they, anyway? I do know that fake-o maraschino cherries are made from a food coloring that is not vegan (if you can tell me what it contains, even better). From my understanding, this has not been discussed from the tags I extensively peeked at. I'm ( Read more... )

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uppity_heathen February 12 2009, 04:01:43 UTC

hmm all the boxes of regular nerds i have seen have gelatin. my g-ma used to make the wonka candy in a factory and brought lots of it home and the nerds were never vegetarian.

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:07:14 UTC

I have two different boxes, the white/red ones, and the watermelon apple ones. I don't see any gelatin in it, however, the red one has carmine in it.

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:11:06 UTC

http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=302653&id=prod1982427 This being the regular nerds, right?

I have the box with the two different flavores seperated by that flimsy carboard center.

mushyasparagus February 12 2009, 04:14:00 UTC

Hey, they list the ingredients there - http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=302653&id=prod1982427#ingredient

One of which is carmine.

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:16:39 UTC

Well fuck, I can only eat the blue nerds...

mushyasparagus February 12 2009, 04:18:53 UTC

If you buy them and throw out the red ones, you're still buying a non-vegan product.

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:20:03 UTC

I know, that was actually a joke comment. I am actually not going to eat any now, and not use the lame excuse of "Oh well Mom got it for me..." that many fall under.

mushyasparagus February 12 2009, 04:23:40 UTC

Damn, I hate when things like that get lost in internet translation!

Sorry.

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:27:27 UTC

No, no, don't be sorry. I totally get how it could be taken wrong. For future reference, "..." tends to be my sarcasm indicator. However, I should get hip with the crew and start doing [/sarcasm] at the end.

mushyasparagus February 12 2009, 04:31:04 UTC

You're from New Bedford!!!!! I'm from Ayer (Littleton/Harvard area).

=D

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:33:29 UTC

HELLZ YEAH NEW BEIGE REPRESENT!

leastconcern February 12 2009, 04:45:08 UTC

I...I'm sorry for that. I'm Portuguese. It's...in me. To do that. I think?

uppity_heathen February 12 2009, 04:16:19 UTC

she always had the boxes with the two flavors. i wonder if they changed the recipe.

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