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Ever notice health nuts, vegans, and other such nutcases always yell and scream about how awesome and tasty their peel-scrapings are? I always get the impression that inside each and every one of their heads is a tiny person on their knees sobbing and begging for a Big Mac and a giant chocolate shake.
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Internet Kraken posted:I didn't even know people ate bee pollen. I thought this was honey but I've been wrong before. Screaming Idiot posted:Ever notice health nuts, vegans, and other such nutcases always yell and scream about how awesome and tasty their peel-scrapings are? I always get the impression that inside each and every one of their heads is a tiny person on their knees sobbing and begging for a Big Mac and a giant chocolate shake. We all have that little person in our heads. Theirs is just in a straight jacket and drowning in a pool of gross fermented tea, praying for escape and vengeance the next time they slip on the fad diet of the season.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:26
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Argyle posted:Great timing for this thread, because minutes ago I overheard coworkers talking about activated cashews. I wonder what they think warrants a 4x price tag on those. i guess salt water is pretty pricey.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:27
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Intoluene posted:I thought this was honey but I've been wrong before.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:34
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Intoluene posted:I thought this was honey but I've been wrong before. Why not just call it honey then?
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Apr 5, 2016 23:44
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chemtrail huffer posted:How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day Holy poo poo she literally drinks crushed pearls for her skin. Someone really should give that kid a healthier life, like with a nice meth family.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:58
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HairyManling posted:It's made from regurgitated nectar. Sure there's some pollen in it because bees are filthy with it, but it's not made out of pollen. Also, what the hell are people talking about eating "bee pollen"? Bees don't make pollen. Flowers do. Is someone scraping pollen off of bees and consuming for "health" reasons. That sounds really labor intensive. Bees collect the pollen for protein and mush it into balls. And then some woo artist steals it from the bees and sells it for ludicrous amounts of money
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Apr 6, 2016 00:08
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So am I right in guessing this "Moon Juice" website exists just to scam people out of their money with bullshit miracle products?
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Apr 6, 2016 00:13
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Internet Kraken posted:I didn't even know people ate bee pollen. quote:Bee pollen is a mystical dance between flowers and bees, yielding a pre-digested, easily assimilated, alkaline food dense with antioxidants, minerals, vitamins, 22 essential amino acids and bio-available proteins. High levels of vitamin B combat acne and wrinkles while pollen soothes allergies. A potent aphrodisiac, blood nourisher and muscle food, bee pollen supports fertility and stamina, muscle growth and definition, and recovery from exercise.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:52
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Thank you for warning me that your bee pollen contains bee pollen.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:56
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XYZ posted:Thank you for warning me that your bee pollen contains bee pollen. This is something I've always found really confusing. You know when you buy a little sleeve of peanuts and it says on the back "WARNING: CONTAINS PEANUTS". ??? Why?
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Apr 6, 2016 01:09
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Because a lot of people are complete morons incapable of taking care of themselves. If they're that dumb I feel like it would be a mercy to let them die naturally, by peanuts. Kinda like the back of a Triscuts box-- the ingredients are like "wheat, salt, vegetable oil; WARNING CONTAINS WHEAT." No loving poo poo.
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Apr 6, 2016 01:18
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chemtrail huffer posted:How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day Seriously, that looks like what 1950s science fiction movies imagined people in the future would eat.
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Apr 6, 2016 01:30
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Internet Kraken posted:So am I right in guessing this "Moon Juice" website exists just to scam people out of their money with bullshit miracle products? It's a juice/health food store here in LA, which is probably the world capitol of rich, dumb people who are obsessed with health and appearances, willing to shell out tons of money for tonics and elixirs.
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Apr 6, 2016 01:48
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cash crab posted:This is something I've always found really confusing. You know when you buy a little sleeve of peanuts and it says on the back "WARNING: CONTAINS PEANUTS". ??? Why? The risk of harm times the gravity of the potential harm is weighed against the burden of taking precautions. In other words having the labels gives us non-allergic people some amusement and confusion but not having the labels potentially gives an allergic person certain death. Children are at particular harm here and those with allergies are taught to check labels instinctively. A child may not make the distinction that peanut butter contains peanuts, instead thinking it's peanut flavoured butter. The label may potentially save their life as well as medical treatment at the states expense. The label itself costs virtually nothing. You'll find that peanut packaging will often say CONTAINS NUTS. This is a seperate issue because peanuts are not nuts.
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Apr 6, 2016 02:20
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chemtrail huffer posted:How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day   https://twitter.com/bobby/status/695630146166984704 https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/555332506485264384
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Apr 6, 2016 02:32
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Tiggum posted:
quote:Between my hectic job and nourishing social life, it’s not always easy to find the time to make mealtime “me”-time. It’s hard running an empire without being expected to make dinner! This ain’t no disco, and it ain’t no country club, either: this is America’s glistening food megalopolis. And I’m a modern businesswoman, not some do-nothing Italian grandmother. https://medium.com/@boobsradley/bet...458b#.9w2cq27g2
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Apr 6, 2016 02:58
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chemtrail huffer posted:How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day the "brain dust" contains cordyceps... I think the fungus has engulfed her brain and is trying to nourish itself until she can clamber up the Hollywood sign and rain down spores on the rest of LA.
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Apr 6, 2016 04:41
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duckmaster posted:The risk of harm times the gravity of the potential harm is weighed against the burden of taking precautions. This post absolutely sucked the fun out of my bemusement, but it was very informative, so thank you.
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Apr 6, 2016 04:49
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littlebluellama posted:the "brain dust" contains cordyceps... I think the fungus has engulfed her brain and is trying to nourish itself until she can clamber up the Hollywood sign and rain down spores on the rest of LA. Yeah I noticed that too and I was like "lady you do know that poo poo zombifies ants"
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Apr 6, 2016 05:51
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Tiggum posted:
For comparison, here's what The Rock eats every day. http://www.muscleandfitness.com/nutrition/meal-plans/smell-what-rock-cooking Dude likes himself some cod.
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Apr 6, 2016 05:57
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Yeah I noticed that too and I was like "lady you do know that poo poo zombifies ants" I was curious about that and did some basic googling about it. Apparently, cordyceps is extremely valuable in Chinese folk medicine and is believed to have a bunch of healing properties associated with it. This is bullshit of course but that doesn't keep people from buying into it. So people harvest the parasitic fungus to sell as a cure-all. This has caused the price of them to skyrocket. As food, they aren't very impressive and have a mild taste. The only reason people eat them is because they are so expensive now. Cause everything that costs a lot of money must be good right? That lady probably believes all the nonsense about their mystic healing powers though, so she's eating them for that I guess.
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Apr 6, 2016 06:02
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duckmaster posted:Children are at particular harm here and those with allergies are taught to check labels instinctively. A child may not make the distinction that peanut butter contains peanuts, instead thinking it's peanut flavoured butter. The label may potentially save their life as well as medical treatment at the states expense. The label itself costs virtually nothing. To be fair, if a child is old enough to be preparing their own food but dumb enough to not know how to read an ingredients list, they're probably gonna die no matter what. I mean, a stupid kid left to his own devices does not last long and I doubt warnings on food would help.
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Apr 6, 2016 06:02
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littlebluellama posted:the "brain dust" contains cordyceps... I think the fungus has engulfed her brain and is trying to nourish itself until she can clamber up the Hollywood sign and rain down spores on the rest of LA. here's hoping.
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Apr 6, 2016 06:24
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As someone who has a severe nut allergy, those notes are pretty helpful. It may seem redundant but when you pick something up its way easier to look at the bolded print on the bottom to see what allergens may be present rather than read the entire label. On the other hand it's hilarious to me to see people spending so much for organic or non-gmo foods. I know this is a contentious subject but all the farmers I know buy conventional (I live in one of the biggest winter produce areas in the nation)
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Apr 6, 2016 06:28
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GopherFlats posted:As someone who has a severe nut allergy, those notes are pretty helpful. It may seem redundant but when you pick something up its way easier to look at the bolded print on the bottom to see what allergens may be present rather than read the entire label. Please tell me you don't have to read the label on a pack of peanuts to understand that it contains nuts.
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Apr 6, 2016 06:37
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I wish I would have paid more attention to the warning on that $1 pack of peanuts. No, it isn't the obvious things that you worry about. There are actually a lot of products that have nut by-products or wheat in them that you wouldn't realize.
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Apr 6, 2016 06:55
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Peanut packages don't have peanut warnings because they seriously think people won't realise they have peanuts in them, they have peanut warnings because every product with peanuts in them needs one and there's no use granting exceptions just because it sometimes looks a little silly.
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Apr 6, 2016 07:07
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AlphaKretin posted:Peanut packages don't have peanut warnings because they seriously think people won't realise they have peanuts in them, they have peanut warnings because every product with peanuts in them needs one and there's no use granting exceptions just because it sometimes looks a little silly. Yeah obviously everyone is gonna realize a can of peanuts contains loving peanuts. Its just that when you have a mandate requiring a big CONTAINS PEANUTS label on everything that has them, that's gonna include the stuff where its obvious. Its meant for the products where the ingredients aren't obvious but nobody is going to waste time sorting out what products qualify for that. Its easier to just print the warning on everything where its applicable.
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Apr 6, 2016 07:19
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This is hilarious. I'm thinking if every food item you eat needs three or four adjectives to describe them, you're probably paying too much. Also, you could probably substitute your diet by ingesting your own farts.
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Apr 6, 2016 07:26
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Scathach posted:Please tell me you don't have to read the label on a pack of peanuts to understand that it contains nuts. A pack of peanuts doesn't contain nuts, though? Look, it's easier for the company to ensure warnings are on the label so they're covered. Easy. No suing. As well as that,it might save a life. Why not have it on there?
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Apr 6, 2016 08:04
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Roblo posted:A pack of peanuts doesn't contain nuts, though? While tree nut allergies and peanut allergies are different it is possible to be effected one even even though you're only allergic to the other because the proteins are often extremely similar. So yea everyone knows that a peanut is a loving legume thanks but the warning still applies. In fact the reason a nut warning is on a package of peanuts is because they're worried about some little turd middle schooler showing off his incredibly annoying intellect by telling his tree nut allergic friend he can eat a bag of peanuts because, no dude, get this, they aren't nuts at all! They're legumes!
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Apr 6, 2016 09:32
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All that 'healthy' eating to look like a skinny-fat nerd.
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Apr 6, 2016 11:21
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Internet Kraken posted:I was curious about that and did some basic googling about it. Apparently, cordyceps is extremely valuable in Chinese folk medicine and is believed to have a bunch of healing properties associated with it. This is bullshit of course but that doesn't keep people from buying into it. So people harvest the parasitic fungus to sell as a cure-all. This has caused the price of them to skyrocket. As food, they aren't very impressive and have a mild taste. The only reason people eat them is because they are so expensive now. Cause everything that costs a lot of money must be good right? Here's an article from National Geographic about it if anyone else is curious too.
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Apr 6, 2016 14:12
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Say Nothing posted:All that 'healthy' eating to look like a skinny-fat nerd.
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Apr 6, 2016 14:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7J7ksopTb8
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Apr 6, 2016 14:59
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chemtrail huffer posted:How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day I would eat the gently caress out of that zucchini thing/umeboshi paste roll. That is because my mother, like Rohan's mother, is also completely loving insane and had massive issues regarding food. Juice oval office will ruin his adolescence. Umeboshi are legit delicious, though. Fleta Mcgurn fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 6, 2016 15:06
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The biggest thing I have against the woo food fad is that you can replace all their terms with magic and magical and it would still make as much sense as the original.
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Apr 6, 2016 15:19
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Lmbo bulletproof coffee, the website itself tells you to scam your doctor for modafinil
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Apr 6, 2016 17:25
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Scathach posted:To be fair, if a child is old enough to be preparing their own food but dumb enough to not know how to read an ingredients list, they're probably gonna die no matter what. I mean, a stupid kid left to his own devices does not last long and I doubt warnings on food would help. Are you suggesting we should get rid of the warnings because everyone should be able to read an ingredients list, identifying all the relevant additives, even in less than prime conditions (low light etc), with interruptions and low levels of literacy? Dim the lights, pretend you have the reading comprehension of a twelve year old, set your phones alarm to go off every thirty seconds, and identify all the allergens in this products ingredients list: quote:Chicken Stock, Carrots, Potatoes (With Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate To Protect Color), Peas, Heavy Cream, Modified Food Starch, Contains 2% Or Less Of Wheat Flour, Salt, Chicken Fat, Dried Dairy Blend (Whey, Calcium Caseinate), Butter (Cream, Salt), Natural Chicken Flavor With Other Natural Flavors (Salt, Natural Flavoring, Maltodextrin, Milk Solids, Nonfat Dry Milk, Chicken Fat, Beef Extract, Ascorbic Acid [To Help Protect Flavor]), Monosodium Glutamate, Liquid Margarine (Vegetable Oil Blend [Liquid Soybean, Hydrogenated Cottonseed, Hydrogenated Soybean], Water, Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides, Beta Carotene [Color]), Roasted Garlic Juice Flavor (Garlic Juice, Salt, Natural Flavors), Gelatin, Roasted Onion Juice Flavor (Onion Juice, Salt, Natural Flavors), Chicken Pot Pie Flavor (Hydrolyzed Corn, Soy And Wheat Gluten Protein, Salt, Vegetable Stock [Carrot, Onion, Celery], Maltodextrin, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Flavors, Dextrose, Chicken Broth), Chicken Stock, Sugar, Mono and Diglycerides With Citric Acid to Protect Flavor, Spice, Seasoning (Soybean Oil, Oleoresin Turmeric, Spice Extractives), Parsley, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Yellow 5. Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Water, Nonfat Milk, Maltodextrin, Salt, Dextrose, Sugar, Whey, Natural Flavor, Butter, Citric Acid, Dough Conditioner, L-Cysteine Hydrochloride, Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate (Preservatives), Colored With Yellow 5 & Red 40. Fresh Chicken Marinated With: Salt, Sodium Phosphate and Monosodium Glutamate. Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate), Garlic Powder, Natural Flavorings, Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, With Not More Than 2% Calcium Silicate Added as an Anti Caking Agent OR Fresh Chicken Marinated With: Salt, Sodium Phosphate and Monosodium Glutamate. Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Corn Starch, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate), Garlic Powder, Modified Corn Starch, Spice Extractives, Citric Acid, and 2% Calcium Silicate added as Anticaking Agent OR Fresh Chicken Marinated With: Salt, Sodium Phosphate and Monosodium Glutamate. Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Sodium Chloride and Anti-caking Agent (Tricalcium Phosphate), Nonfat Milk, Egg Whites, Colonel’s Secret Original Recipe Seasoning OR Potato Starch, Sodium Phosphate, Salt, Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Sodium Chloride and Anti-caking agent (Tricalcium Phosphate), Nonfat Milk, Egg Whites, Colonel’s Secret Original Recipe Seasoning OR Potato Starch, Sodium Phosphate, Salt, Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate), Garlic Powder, Natural Flavorings, Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, With Not More Than 2% Calcium Silicate Added as an Anti Caking Agent OR Potato Starch, Sodium Phosphate, Salt, Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Corn Starch, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate), Garlic Powder, Modified Corn Starch, Spice Extractives, Citric Acid, and 2% Calcium Silicate Added As Anticaking Agent OR Seasoning (Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Garlic Powder, Spice Extractives, Onion Powder), Soy Protein Concentrate, Rice Starch and Sodium Phosphates. Battered With: Water, Wheat Flour, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Salt, Dextrose, Monosodium Glutamate, Spice and Onion Powder. Predusted With: Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Dried Egg Whites, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Monosodium Glutamate, Spice and Onion Powder. Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Salt, Soy Flour, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Monosodium Glutamate, Spice, Nonfat Dry Milk, Onion Powder, Dextrose, Extractives of Turmeric and Extractives of Annatto. Breading Set in Vegetable oil. Bonus points if you can identify the product!
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