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Patricia Kangas Ktistes's avatar

There used to be a small bottle dump of sorts up in the woods near the old cemetery. I still have a bottle that we dug up there when we were young teenagers. We never defaced anything or left trash around. We understood the cemetery was holy ground. And also probably because we used to recite passages of “In Flanders Fields” up there as elementary schoolers. I wonder if this bottle we found ever contained any of the liquid curing preparations being described here in recent days.

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Patricia Kangas Ktistes's avatar

Extract of Cochineal? Beetle juice.

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John M Poltrack's avatar

Still used a food dye

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carltoko's avatar

Google tells us that because it is made from insects it is unsuitable for Vegetarians.

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