Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Disturbing Thought for the Week

While completely safe, the average chocolate bar will contain significant trace amounts of insects due to the process of creating finished chocolate from cacao.

4 comments:

May said...

At least bugs are good sources of protein

Anonymous said...

And I'll put up with a lot in the name of Resse's!

Anonymous said...

Have you ever been to a grape harvest at a winery? There's way more bug juice in wine than you really want to think about.

Fate said...

@average_jane

They actually ferment cacao as the first part of the process in making chocolate, so it's the exact same sort of thing. (The alcohol is drained off though.)

:)