When you live such a busy, chaotic life it becomes so easy to get caught up in what you’re doing. Work, school, a relationship. When you finally get a second to yourself, to just sit back and realize how much time has flown by without you even realizing it, it is shocking. It’s like jumping into a pool. For the few seconds you’re under the water, you’re frantic. And once you reach the surface, you’re grasping for air until you can breathe normally. Until now, way too late, I didn’t realize how much I was missing out on. Now that I only have a few months left, my long list of to-dos just became endless. I have so many people to see. So many things to do. So many memories to make. I’m always focusing on the bigger picture but its time to focus on the little things.
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Spring break, you were great. <3
- me when someone's asleep: alright better be quiet they need some sleep
- everyone when i'm asleep: ok it's time to vacuum for hours and yell at each other and put glass in the garbage disposal and land a helicopter on the roof
WHY I DON’T EAT YOPLAIT.
A) moldy jelly beans
B) microscopic view of sugar powder
C) Bugs
D) None of the above
Answer below
What you need to know:
This is a 10X zoom image of the female cochineal insect (Dactylpius Coccus), producer of what has been considered for centuries the best red dye in the world.
Originating in Aztec Mexcio, the female cochineal insects set up shop on cactii, where they breed and eat. The male lives for just one short week to reproduce and then die.
The Aztecs would collect the bugs, briefly boil them in water, dry the bodies in the sun and then pulverize them into a fine scarlet powder known as cochineal or carmine. The powder dye was used for royal garments and was later coveted by the Spanish conquistadors who brought it back to Europe.
The relevant pigment in the bugs is a bitter chemical called carminic acid. Food manufacturers began using it about 100 years ago to add luster to products such as pork sausages, dried shrimp, candies, jams, and maraschino cherries.
As food science progressed, cheaper artificial dyes Red #2 and Red #40 replaced the natural cochineal until its production became uneconomical.
However, fears over the carcinogenic effects of artificial food coloring helped cochineal stage a comeback, and it is now featured in various food products, including Yoplait strawberry yogurt.
Although carmine is considered safe by the FDA, about 1 in 10,000 people develop some sort of allergic reaction when consuming it. Thus, starting in January 2011, the FDA is requiring all foods and cosmetics using cochineal to explicitly state its presence in the ingredient list.
The new labeling will also be beneficial to vegetarians and Muslims who wish not to eat bugs. Interestingly, carmine is considered kosher by observant jews.
What to do at the supermarket:
Look for the following on the ingredient list – Carmine, Cochineal, E210.
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As you can plainly see in our last picture, the ingredients in strawberry Yoplait definitely includes carmine. How good does this “yogurt” sound to you now? If that doesn’t convince you, just look at all the other processed junk in it.
I notice everything.
By everything, I literally mean everything. I notice when someone stops hitting me up like they used to. I notice when the way someone talks to me starts changing. I notice the little things that people do, and the little things they used to do. I notice when things change, and when it’s no longer the same. I notice every single little detail. I just don’t say anything.
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I don’t know why some people are getting really shitty and pretentious about the Kony thing, saying things like ‘oh people only care now its going round the internet blah blah blah’ as if they were sitting at an UN meeting a few weeks ago discussing the matter I mean shut UP
it really doesn’t…
