Brown sauce

[klou15]

Is it true that there is apple in brown sauce?

[nickmo]

Darn tootin'....

Brown 'soss is vinegar, apple puree, caramel, sugar, water and a bit of seasoning. That is if it is a proper brown sauce.....

HP brand uses tamarind and more sugar, dates, a bit of thickening flour and tomatoes - no apple though. So it isn't the real thing.....

[klou15]

Ewww! Thats why it smells a bit funny sometimes.. not eating it again! but thanks

[nickmo]

Ooooops - so thats ruined one pleasure - no more bacon sarnies with the 'soss - what other foodstuffs have you a query about then? Lets see if theres anything else you suddenly want to avoid....!

[klou15]

Hah well i could have curry ketchup on my bacon sarnie. Uhmmm i dno what other manky food facts do you know?

[nickmo]

Ooooooh - where do I start . . .

Worcestershire Sauce - made with dead fish floating in a barrel for 3 years - pickled anchovies to you that is..

Alginic acid is a component of ice cream - and car tyres, and paint.......and it comes from seaweed

Ice cream in the US is now permitted to have fish dna added to it - stuff from the Pout fish - which is a polar fish scientists have used as it has the ability to survive freezing - so why not add it to food? they say.....

As an aside - milk has less water in it than a carrot......

Thorntons Chocs - yummy til you know the shelac on the surface to make them glossy comes from ground up beetles

50 % of the refined sugar in the US is filtered through bone char - burnt bones - to remove the lime milk used to make the sugar white...

Polar bear liver is toxic

About 23% of pigs at slaughter are infected with salmonella compared to 12% of poultry (unless you are in the Czech Republic - 65% have it there)

Ongoing research into bottled water 'cos of the amount of bromates present - cancer causing chemical leaching out of the plastic bottles.....and now latex from packaging (found in 1/3 of all packs) is causing concern too....& 1 billionth of a gram can cause a reaction..!

Diaceytl is a chemical used in flavouring, especially butter products in sweets and pastries. Causes a hideous fatal lung disease if you breath it in - but oh sure, its fine to eat it......

And 'GM free' on the label - means it can be up to 3% GM content......so what are we eating?