U.S. Demand for Human Hair Grows, Used in Wigs, Pizza

FoxNews.com ^ | 01/07/08 | Associated Press

[evets]

Hold the anchovies!

[SolidWood]

No. If hairs drop into your soup or food... and this happens often enough it’s no cannibalism either, isn’t it?

Also you might be surprised how many tiny skin particles, which come off all he time, are in our food... it’s not cannibalism.

However human hair knowingly used in Pizza is disturbing and gross anyway.

[Turret Gunner A20]

hahahahahahahahaha

It seems to me that several folks here had better not look into what goes into bologna and many other things we eat every day. And what do farmers do with the stuff they clean out of stables and barns?

[BnBlFlag]

Pizza?

[Vigilanteman]

. . . a common raw-material source for l-cysteine, an amino acid frequently used in baked goods such as pizza dough and bagels.

I'm guessing it is extracted.

In a previous life, I worked in the cosmetics business. One of our best suppliers had rare returns on occasion because an insect might be found in their cosmetics. They used mainly botanical extracts. Botanical extracts are the most popular alternative to the other main ingredient in cosmetics-- collagen and animal fats.

Every botanical extract contains insects. The better ones (such as we were representing) will occasionally show an insect because their blending and refining process is minimal in order to produce the best close to nature benefits of the botanical used. Those lower on the scale (such as you buy in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart) will almost never show identifable insects or insect parts because they contain a small quantity of highly refined and blended extract mixed with a lot of filler.

If we knew everything that was in what we eat or rub on our faces, we probably could do neither.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Guess I should stop ordering the “everything bagel”.

[swain_forkbeard]

Hair-raising!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I guess it will be Chinese hair pasta....

[Mr. Jazzy]

He ought to hit up Alec Baldwin for some of his back and body hair. That would be four sacks right there! Ask his ex.

[dinoparty]

I didn’t intend my post to be 100% serious.

Anyway, I still argue that it is technically cannibalism when you eat even a stray hair in your bakery muffin. LOL.

[Centurion2000]

This is disgusting. In PIZZA?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Good point!...does everyone know what’s in head cheese?

[Camel Joe]

Except in China I somehow expect to see the work camps teaming with bald heads from time to time. Christian and political dissident hair is the best though, criminal hair can be so coarse.

[dinoparty]

Um, I don’t eat head cheese. Or bologna or hot dogs. Or chicken mcnuggets for that matter.

[Domandred]

it's a common raw-material source for l-cysteine, an amino acid frequently used in baked goods such as pizza dough and bagels.

Okay then...

I got nothin...

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

[Domandred]

I was sooo slow

[metmom]

A lot of baked goods have Dough Enhancer added. It’d be my guess that it’s in that rather than the flour.

Here’s a source for grain and flour that’s American.
http://www.newhopemills.com/products/

New Hope Mills has fought the state of NY and won in an effort to keep from putting additives in their pancake mix. They have a whole wheat pancake mix that’s out of this world. With other brands you can tell you’re eating something good for you. This is way better.

[Camel Joe]

Just the parts of the pigs head that would gross you out to look at em. Snouts, lips and ears mostly. Fried pig ears as dog snacks has proved more profitable for the ears though.

[jurroppi1]

thanks for the link! I’ve never been involved in any production scale food processing or baking of any sort - just local stores where I’ve never seen or used anything like Dough Enhancer as an ingredient (hence the suppositions made in my earlier post).

[jurroppi1]

Yeah, I hear ya. There are a lot of things I would like to unsee when it comes to food production (things I’ve seen on TV or seen other people do in kitchens).