• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I used to work at a grocery store's meat section and a customer came up to me at the exact moment I was adding the red dye to ask if the meat was all natural

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Isn't most red dye made from some kind of bug? So, technically, yes. It is all natural.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's all natural but it's also only here because of human intervention, I can't win :stalin-stressed:

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        We used a kind of aerosolized concoction that was largely made of ethylene and carbon monoxide and some other particulate dyes. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but I remember coming up with a hypothesis it was made specifically to skirt around FDA laws about food attitives, something about well if it's 90% gas we're not really adding anything are we now