7th February, 11:30 pm Feb 7th

so i was half right all along - yellow smarties are dyed with tartrazine (E102) which comes from coal tar. red smarties are dyed with carmine/cochineal (E120), which comes from crushed beetles. awesome!

This was posted on Monday 7th February, 2005 at 11:30 pm Pacific.

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