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Tabby Tuesday

Steven L. Taylor
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  1. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    I’m going to be interested to watch the elimination of chemical food dyes. As you note, this is a good thing. However, Americans have been very much trained to expect food to be certain colors. A local baker recently experimented a bit with this, by eliminating green food coloring from her pistachio muffins. Controlling for foot traffic and several other variables, she had way more waste/leftovers on the days when she left the food coloring out, vs. when she used it. No other changes to the recipe, prices, or her marketing. People just didn’t buy them when the color was duller.

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  2. Slugger Avatar
    Slugger

    @Jen: You are right. The dairy lobby in Wisconsin outlawed dyes in margarine to keep the attractive yellow out. I know that salmon farmers add marigolds to their fish food pellets to make the flesh of the salmon that color we expect. It will be interesting to see the exact details of the ban. I think that products containing cochineal will advertise as all natural and organic without disclosing that it is made from an insect.

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  3. DK Avatar
    DK

    NBC News: Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting police officer who killed himself after Capitol riot.

    This MAGA miscreant should be placed on a terrorist watchlist.

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  4. Michael Reynolds Avatar
    Michael Reynolds

    @DK:
    Watch Trump try to overturn a civil verdict.

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  5. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    @Slugger: Is animal feed (marigolds in fish food) a dye?

  6. Michael Cain Avatar
    Michael Cain

    @Joe:

    Is animal feed (marigolds in fish food) a dye?

    The chemical compounds in marigolds that provide the coloring have official food additive “E” numbers that classify them as coloring agents. E numbers cover both naturally occurring and synthetic molecules. The FDA’s list of FD&C numbers (eg, the now-banned-in-the-US red dye no. 3, E127) only covers synthetics.

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  7. DK Avatar
    DK

    @Michael Reynolds: I mean, would Roberts & Co. stop him?

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  8. Eusebio Avatar
    Eusebio

    @Michael Cain: I remember Perdue commercials that boasted of using marigolds in their chicken feed, which was interesting because it seemed clear the purpose of the marigolds was coloration. Here’s an excerpt of a story on these ads from 2011:

    “This seal verifies we feed my fresh, all-natural chickens an all-vegetarian diet, including corn, soybeans and marigolds,” Jim Perdue says in one commercial. In another spot, he describes the diet as having “no animal byproducts, no animal fat.”

  9. Jay L Gischer Avatar
    Jay L Gischer

    Of course Vance did that on purpose. He isn’t dumb. If I were Alex Padilla, I’d start calling him “Jim-Bob” or something like that. And when questioned, respond with, “I guess I mixed him up with some other hillbilly”.

    Tit for tat is a thing.

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