This bug's life
So I've been reading this book called Fast Food Nation and it's a very interesting read. It gives you all these little factoids about the fast food industry, and then some. According to the book, carmine or red food color comes from female insects from some island. The bugs feed on red berries and the red pigment from the berries is absorbed into their system.The bugs are then collected, dried, and ground into powder form, and this is what's added to food to make it look red, like in strawberry yogurt, juice, candies, etc. Fast forward to lunch when the fruit cart at Broad Street isn't there and Starbucks is filled to the kazoo and I have no idea where to go for lunch so I just go down to the candy store and get some yogurt and shoving a spoonful of strawberry banana goodness into my mouth, my memory finally catches up. I'm eating bugs for lunch. Cool.
{Song 2, Blur} - Woohoo!
So I've been reading this book called Fast Food Nation and it's a very interesting read. It gives you all these little factoids about the fast food industry, and then some. According to the book, carmine or red food color comes from female insects from some island. The bugs feed on red berries and the red pigment from the berries is absorbed into their system.The bugs are then collected, dried, and ground into powder form, and this is what's added to food to make it look red, like in strawberry yogurt, juice, candies, etc. Fast forward to lunch when the fruit cart at Broad Street isn't there and Starbucks is filled to the kazoo and I have no idea where to go for lunch so I just go down to the candy store and get some yogurt and shoving a spoonful of strawberry banana goodness into my mouth, my memory finally catches up. I'm eating bugs for lunch. Cool.
{Song 2, Blur} - Woohoo!
