BoracayB
Senior Cook
Some vanilla flavor in foods come from a beavers butt...
Weird Food Additives
Weird Food Additives
That list is mostly a scare tactic.
Here's what Snopes has to say about beaver bum vanilla: snopes.com: Castoreum Is Produced from Beaver Secretions?
It's just too expensive to use in food.
I don't get grossed out very easily. I have eaten bung (a Chinese dish with pigs' rectums). It was good.
Do you drink beer? It's clarified with isinglas, which comes from fish bladders. They use it because it doesn't leave any residue, scent, or flavour.
Did you know that broccoli is loaded with formaldehyde and sulfur?? Why, it's poisonous! </sarcasm>
Thankfully keeping kosher saves a person from such worries.
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That was a joke, Addie. Although it's true that broccoli contains those chemicals.
I don't remember seeing beaver on the trefah list.
This conversation ranks right up there with this:
Dihydrogen Monoxide - The Truth...http://bandhmo.org/