Yay! Skittles are now....

[SandEagle]

this may not matter to many of you, but I haven't had Skittles in over 20 years. This is good news, yay! Sam's Club carries them.. not sure if all of them are going to be like that though.

 

[ja1484]

You have a gluten allergy there Sally?

 

[MoPHo]

Originally posted by: ja1484

You have a gluten allergy there Sally?

Or are you jewish/anti-gelatin? (honest question, not trying to be a dick)

 

[ranmaniac]

They can expand their market then, as they would be considered kosher/halal if they are gelatin free.

 

[Newbian]

You know they are going to suck now since anything without gluten are not any good.

 

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: MoPHo

Originally posted by: ja1484

You have a gluten allergy there Sally?

Or are you jewish/anti-gelatin? (honest question, not trying to be a dick)

stop trying to be a dick

jk, actually i'm anti-gelatin. gotta keep it kosher/halal. i read that starbursts are also available like this. woohoo

 

[ja1484]

So why the gluten hate there Sallystein?

 

[91TTZ]

Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

 

[waffleironhead]

I for one hope there are other skittles that are double gluten double gelatin. I'd hate for all those poor ingredients to not fulfill their intended purpose.

 

[ja1484]

Am I the only one wishing they would make a skittle variant the size of a fucking hamburger patty, York Peppermint Patty style?

I would nom the hell out of that.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

Well a lot of people have pretty severe allergies to gluten...

 

[greatBLU]

Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

I think it has more to do with allergies. Someone else explain this? Why is it that some people can't eat products with gluten?

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: greatBLU

Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

I think it has more to do with allergies. Someone else explain this? Why is it that some people can't eat products with gluten?

Because they were conceived with a weak sperm and if natural selection were still at play they would've been eaten by dingo dogs long ago.

 

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: ja1484

So why the gluten hate there Sallystein?

oh, i dont care about gluten...shiii i can eat that by the truckload... . its the gelatin that gets to me. why do they have to make candy out of pork-based gelatin? blech

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

Well a lot of people have pretty severe allergies to gluten...

Isn't that their problem? A lot of people have severe allergies to peanuts, too, but that doesn't mean that JIF should change the formula for their peanut butter.

It seems that people are getting weaker and weaker. When I was a kid you never even heard of all these food allergies.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: ja1484

So why the gluten hate there Sallystein?

oh, i dont care about gluten...shiii i can eat that by the truckload... . its the gelatin that gets to me. why do they have to make candy out of pork-based gelatin? blech

does it have anything to do with pork?

Gelatin is a product of bone-meal. I think it is just made from any and every body available to the gelatin industry, which includes pigs. I don't recall gelatin having anything to do with pork products, other than the previously mentioned possibility of bone meal.

And no, I can foresee that changing. They simply get bones chips shipped by the truckload, and the overhead required to force bone providers to separate pig bones from the rest is just a worthless concept. It's also one of the perfect industry measures to use every possible square inch of an animal butchered for food. Animals are just stripped of meat and thrown away. Bones get chopped up and used in a few different places, all the spare flesh not used gets turned into a multitude of things, including pet foods, hides are used.... everything is used in most cases.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

Well a lot of people have pretty severe allergies to gluten...

Isn't that their problem? A lot of people have severe allergies to peanuts, too, but that doesn't mean that JIF should change the formula for their peanut butter.

It seems that people are getting weaker and weaker. When I was a kid you never even heard of all these food allergies.

Its not that people are getting weaker, its that we're getting wiser. Many food allergies and intolerances don't have obvious and immediate effects and thus people can and have lived with them their entire lives.

My dad has celiac disease and he didn't discover this until he had a routine colonoscopy at age 50.

 

[jman19]

Are they all like this? Or just those new orange bag ones?

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: greatBLU

Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

I think it has more to do with allergies. Someone else explain this? Why is it that some people can't eat products with gluten?

I worked with a muslim a couple years ago who couldn't eat a lot of candy because of the gelatin, which has pig parts in it.

 

[QueBert]

ever put a whole bag of Sour Skittles in your mouth at once? Sorta off topic but I don't advise trying it.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: QueBert
ever put a whole bag of Sour Skittles in your mouth at once? Sorta off topic but I don't advise trying it.

it hurts the roof of the mouth. Just like eating a lot of Warheads back to back or a lot of anything sour. It's not even that the candy is too sour... I just don't get it. The roof of the mouth is raw for like a day. It sucks!

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: greatBLU

Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

I think it has more to do with allergies. Someone else explain this? Why is it that some people can't eat products with gluten?

I worked with a muslim a couple years ago who couldn't eat a lot of candy because of the gelatin, which has pig parts in it.

/places bait on hook


See, this is why I have trouble taking religion seriously. The idea that an omnipotent being cares which animal cells I eat or how I groom my facial hair is a ridiculous notion to me. I couldn't care less about whether or not someone has a beard, and I have to believe if there is an all-forgiving omnipotent being out there that it has bigger fish to to fry.

 

[arrfep]

The topic of gelatin came up at work on Saturday and I was surprised how no one in my office knew where it came from. We were eating some easter candy, some kind of generic Peeps. The ingredients, in order, were: Sugar, HFCS, Corn starch, and gelatin (BEEF). It was written exactly like that, with the BEEF in capital letters in parentheses after gelatin. Needless to say, the candy sat around uneaten for the rest of the day.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: ja1484

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: greatBLU

Who the hell cares? Do they need to sissify everything?

I think it has more to do with allergies. Someone else explain this? Why is it that some people can't eat products with gluten?

I worked with a muslim a couple years ago who couldn't eat a lot of candy because of the gelatin, which has pig parts in it.

/places bait on hook


See, this is why I have trouble taking religion seriously. The idea that an omnipotent being cares which animal cells I eat or how I groom my facial hair is a ridiculous notion to me. I couldn't care less about whether or not someone has a beard, and I have to believe if there is an all-forgiving omnipotent being out there that it has bigger fish to to fry.

it's a tradition.

/shrug

 

[slayer202]

Damn, if I went 20 years without skittles, can't even imagine how good they would taste