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[changeling]

I've just found my new favourite website. I found Bryanna yesterday when I was looking for bread recipes, but I've just had her linked from veganlunchbox with an anti-anti soy page, and I've discovered that she has information on how to make your own soy milk, and how to make your own soy yoghurt. I'm very excited about both things, because I like to have ways of getting such items without relying on what Companies might be putting into them. Also, it's bloody hard to get plain soy yoghurt, and I pretty much only use it for vegan tzatziki.

So I was pottering about the site, cruising the FAQs, and discovered this:

Is chewing gum vegan?

From the Vegetarian Resource Group:

“Most chewing gums innocuously list "gum base" as one of their ingredients, masking the fact that petroleum, lanolin, glycerin, polyethylene, polyvinyl acetate, petroleum wax, stearic acid, and latex (a possible allergen) may be among the components. Because of standards of identity for items such as gum base and flavoring, manufacturers are not required to list everything in their product.

Dude. Petroleum. Lanolin. Latex. Petroleum wax. Am I the only person who thinks that you might as well be chewing on car parts? Ew.

(P.S., I've updated the foodblog. There will one day be a nifty little graphic I can drop in my posts when I feel like noting it here, but this is not that day.)

Comments

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

That makes me think of a joke I heard somewhere.

I heard a slightly different version, but the gist is...

One day, our beloved Senior Minister went to Thailand and had lobster for dinner with the Thai King. After SM had finished, he asked the King....

SM: Your Highness, what can you do with this lobster shell?
King : We cannot do anything with it, we just throw it away.
SM: Oh, no. In our country, we send it to the factory and produce prawn crackers.

Then SM had an orange. After he had finished, he asked the King.

SM: What can you do with the orange skin?
King : We cannot do anything. We just throw it away.
SM: Oh, no. In Singapore, we send it to the factory and produce orange jam.

Then SM asked for some chewing gum. After he had finished, he put it on the plate and asked the King.
SM: What can you do with the chewing gum?
King: Oh, no. We just throw it away.
SM: In Singapore, we send it to the factory to produce condoms and then send it to Thailand.

SM was about to leave but then the King asked him...
King: What do you do with the condom when you finish using it?
SM: We cannot do anything. We just throw it away.
King: In Thailand, when we finish using the condom, we send it to the factory to produce chewing gum and then send it back to Singapore!!!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That's GROSS.

By the way, did you find out where the Mexican food store is?

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

Then again, chewing gum is pretty gross... :)

No... I looked online and couldn't find it, and I haven't been down there... I'm wondering if it has closed down since we were last there. Which is entirely feasible... it was nearly five years ago. :(

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That's OK. I would have liked looking around, but since Macro has chipotle chillis and the Mysterious Mexican Spice (I forget what it's called) and pinto and black beans, I'll probably be pretty right in terms of ingredients.

Would've been nice to look through their cookbooks, though.

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Baaaa, Lanolin isn't car-related!! :D

(lookit how humorous I become when ill!)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*pets you, shears your wool*

[discordia-intus.livejournal.com]

You know, I gave up chewing gum like, oh 4 months ago.

Now I'm even more glad that I did!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I reckon!

[sols-light.livejournal.com]

All those things are potential allergens, latex is just becoming one of the better known allergies because of its prevalence in hospitals.

You can eat petroleum wax, it's the same stuff that's in Cold Cream or whatever the makeup remover for pancake makeup is called. I'm not surprised there used to be stories about it taking 7 years to digest chewing gum, even if they are false.

Chewing gum: It's frightening stuff.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I did know about the latex allergy, but I hadn't really thought about it in this context. Whether I can eat petroleum wax or not, it sounds to me that it's essentially a byproduct from crude oil, which makes me want to pass.

And you don't usually eat cold cream ...

I couldn't agree more. I don't think I'll ever have another stick.