What's in the Easter Egg dyes?

National Guard

I was wondering; as I sit here and peel one of many hard boiled eggs that my kids and I dyed for Easter: What exactly is in those tablets that you drop in warm water to dissolve them before coloring eggs? After I peeled my egg, the white part was no longer white as it was speckled a dark pink from the dye that had seeped through. So I started wondering if it was something like "mechanically separtaed chicken" that's in a Slim Jim?

Perhaps it is best not knowing, then I won't get grossed out over dyed eggs. It took a long time for me to eat a Slim Jim again after learning about mechanically separated chicken. Still don't eat them very often at all.

Parabeaglex2

I think it's harmless food coloring. Or, maybe it's not. I'll just hang back and see if you clutch your throat and make gurgling sounds before dropping to the floor in convulsions - then we'll know. x;-)

HRinNH

I stopped using food colorings when my kids were little after the scare about red die #4 or was it #10. I can't remember, but it was found to cause cancer.

Cheryl C.

National Guard

Well, I am assuming (I know it's a dangerous word!) that the harmful dyes- they've stopped using them. I was just wondering if the dyes they used were just something more on the gross side, and therefore if you knew what was in them you might get a little queasy.

LarryC

I don't know what's in those little dye pellets, but they sure look like the Phizzies that we used to drop into a glass of water and then drink it. I have no idea what was in those either. I just drank it....no questions asked. Come to think of it Phizzy water wasn't all that great. However, it was cheaper than pop and we assumed it was alright. And I'm still alive.....a little goofy....but still alive.

Shadowfax

Hey Lar, don't tryto pass that 'goofiness' off on the poor fizzies, it comes from hangin out in the UP with all those Swedes and Finns and other assorted Youpers. That stuff grows on ya, eh!

LarryC

Hey, dont forget about all the Italians there too. We had fun and, yes, got goofy from digging out of 250 inches of snow every year.

By the way, Shadowfax, ever heard of "Da' Yoopers". I knew all them guys. Maybe that tells you something about me. Here's a story about Joe (Potila) Arkansas. I had been living in Minnesota for about 5 years and I went back to the UP for a wedding. The wedding was for Normy's daughter who also happened to be Joe's neice, so as a favor to Normy, Joe's group (Da' Yoopers) played the wedding. During a break, Joe came over to our table and said, "Hey, Larry, haven't seen ya' around. Where ya' been?" I said, "We moved to Minnesota 5 years ago, Joe." Joe was a helluva musician, but goofy like everybody else. I still am. My wife loves it when I say, "eh". But she especially likes when I make a batch of pasties.

JudyT929

Pasties? Does she wear them?

LarryC

Judy, Judy, Judy! Pasties are a meat pie that's popular in mining communities. And uh, no my wife has yet to wear one.

Gillian3

Pasties are delicious. The original "pastie" was the lunchbox meal for miners in Cornwall, England. As miners from Cornwall emigrated all over the world, so did Cornish pasties, and are still found in areas where mining is or was a local industry.

Hunter1

Hey! Don't be blaming the Finns. We're an intelligent bunch that just got thrown in with those other groups because we liked the weather. It seemed so much like the old country; isolated, desolate, rocky ground that's impossible to farm, snow on the ground 7 months of the year.

Should we tell the rest of the group how to pronounce the word sauna? Sow-na, with the emphasis on the first syllable. Pork should like it, just like one of his mother pigs.

Don D

Just wondered if you're still eating those eggs. If you are, you might want to stock up on Rolaids.

National Guard

Yes, yes, yes, when you have 5 kids and they all want to do a carton for themselves - it makes for a lot of egg salad and eggs!

JudyT929

Aren't you supposed to get rid of them after 3 days like fish and houseguests?

National Guard

They have been refrigerated. So far, I haven't "dyed" yet from eating the eggs!!!

Now, the ones we can't find because we can't remember where we hid them; when they are eventually found - no, I won't eat those!

I think it's the law - that when you count your eggs and therefore keep track of how many eggs are hidden, it doesn't matter. The kids will only find 95% of whatever amount is hidden. THen the parents must strain their brains to re-trace the night before when they hid them and try to figure out which eggs haven't been found yet!

Don D

Well, if you've eaten five dozen boiled eggs in the past 7 days, do the town of Elkton a favor and avoid open flames.