Filthy, disgusting shellac !

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This article made me laugh.

When it 'comes down to it', shellac 'is a word most commonly associated with the stuff we coat our nails in'.

'Taking Kate into the jungle, her host Tomas explained that the key component is found in trees.

Baffled, the presenter starts looking around and is shocked when they cut down a branch covered in what Tomas describes as insect nests.

The insects, known as lac beetles, ​spend their whole life attached to a tree, sucking up its sap'.

Tomas, explains: ‘The shining product we make it from pee or waste from the beetles.’

In a voiceover Matt explains that the female lac beetle excretes their waste onto the branches of the trees to make a hard protective nest.

It’s this nest with the live and dead beetles in which the pickers scrape off to make shellac, which is why some super-strict vegans don’t consider some lemons to be vegan-friendly.

Here is the article to read - if you dare !

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... -from.html

[CarlosV]

After that article I will stop eating my records.

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After that article I will stop eating my records.

ha ha !

Never ! I love my ground 78 records with waxed lemon peel on toast ! Those insects just need a century to mature to taste their best ! I usually go for the vintage years, some-where between 1905 and 1910 !

I thought that the video was quite interesting.