I know I saw a site somewhere that had all kinds of pictures of where
shellac comes from. Lac beetles, harvesting, what raw shellac looks like
with all the bug parts in it, etc. I've spent an hour googling, and I've
turned up bupkis. I usually don't bookmark things, because I have
gradually just grown dependent on remembering enough keywords to re-google
something at will. Not this time.
Any ideas? Did I maybe read it in a book somewhere? I don't think any of
my WW books have color photographs though, and this was color. I don't
read WW magazines.
I'm trying to find this to satisfy my children's curiosity about the bag of
weird looking orange bug doodoo I have on my desk, and to assure them that
it's not made at the expense of using up some unrenewable endangered
resource.
I have also just assured them that it's not really bug crap, but actually
something more like solidified aphid honeydew. Is that actually accurate,
or is it really more of a fecal material?
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George wrote:
> Gotta ask. Fruits and vegetables????
Yep. Do a Google search on "shellac coating fruits vegetables" and
you'll find plenty of mention of shellac as a coating for fruits and
veggies:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shellac+coating+fruits+vegetables&btnG=Google+Search
Chuck Vance
Just say (tmPL): Shellac: it's a floor wax ... and a dessert
topping!
Dave in Fairfax wrote:
> http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/ezine/archive/66/qanda.cfm
That was the one, specifically, I was trying to dig up. Thanks! What a
relief. :)
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Conan The Librarian wrote:
> Yep. Do a Google search on "shellac coating fruits vegetables" and
> you'll find plenty of mention of shellac as a coating for fruits and
> veggies:
>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shellac+coating+fruits+vegetables&btnG=Google+Search
Interesting how the first article is about how there's a new process to
replace shellac in this use with... PVA?! Oh yummy! It's not bad enough
to eat bug doodoo, now they want you to eat glue.
Maybe this is a move to make fruit more popular with the younger crowd.
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Silvan wrote:
snip
> I'm trying to find this to satisfy my children's curiosity about the bag of
> weird looking orange bug doodoo I have on my desk, and to assure them that
> it's not made at the expense of using up some unrenewable endangered
> resource.
>
> I have also just assured them that it's not really bug crap, but actually
> something more like solidified aphid honeydew. Is that actually accurate,
> or is it really more of a fecal material?
http://green-alan.tripod.com/ReferenceNtoZ.htm
http://www.yellow.co.nz/site/ambrosehealfurniture/
http://www.shellac.net/information.html
http://www.woodworkingshows.com/shellac.htm <How it's harvested
http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/ezine/archive/66/qanda.cfm
<Pix
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/topics/goods.htm <Uses
Hope that helps some.
Dave in Fairfax
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"Charles Spitzer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Jody" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >>
> > After you show them it comes from bugs also tell them all the things
they
> > eat that is coated in shellac. Some things that come to mind are fruits
> > and vegetables, some medication is coated.
>
> candy, like m&ms.
>
>
Gotta ask. Fruits and vegetables????
And what does the alcohol do to them? Where I live they're waxed or oiled
to _hold_ moisture, not dehydrated with alcohol.
Enteric coatings and candies, certainly.
Ah, the WAX! Big difference.
"Conan The Librarian" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> George wrote:
>
> > Gotta ask. Fruits and vegetables????
>
> Yep. Do a Google search on "shellac coating fruits vegetables" and
> you'll find plenty of mention of shellac as a coating for fruits and
> veggies:
>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shellac+coating+fruits+vegetables&btnG=Google+Search
>
>
> Chuck Vance
> Just say (tmPL): Shellac: it's a floor wax ... and a dessert
> topping!
>
Silvan wrote:
> I know I saw a site somewhere that had all kinds of pictures of where
> shellac comes from. Lac beetles, harvesting, what raw shellac looks like
> with all the bug parts in it, etc. I've spent an hour googling, and I've
> turned up bupkis. I usually don't bookmark things, because I have
> gradually just grown dependent on remembering enough keywords to re-google
> something at will. Not this time.
>
> Any ideas? Did I maybe read it in a book somewhere? I don't think any of
> my WW books have color photographs though, and this was color. I don't
> read WW magazines.
>
> I'm trying to find this to satisfy my children's curiosity about the bag of
> weird looking orange bug doodoo I have on my desk, and to assure them that
> it's not made at the expense of using up some unrenewable endangered
> resource.
>
> I have also just assured them that it's not really bug crap, but actually
> something more like solidified aphid honeydew. Is that actually accurate,
> or is it really more of a fecal material?
>
After you show them it comes from bugs also tell them all the things
they eat that is coated in shellac. Some things that come to mind are
fruits and vegetables, some medication is coated.
"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I know I saw a site somewhere that had all kinds of pictures of where
Heard the one about the pirate who walked into a bar with a ship's wheel in
his pants?
"Jody" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Silvan wrote:
>> I know I saw a site somewhere that had all kinds of pictures of where
>> shellac comes from. Lac beetles, harvesting, what raw shellac looks like
>> with all the bug parts in it, etc. I've spent an hour googling, and I've
>> turned up bupkis. I usually don't bookmark things, because I have
>> gradually just grown dependent on remembering enough keywords to
>> re-google
>> something at will. Not this time.
>>
>> Any ideas? Did I maybe read it in a book somewhere? I don't think any
>> of
>> my WW books have color photographs though, and this was color. I don't
>> read WW magazines.
>>
>> I'm trying to find this to satisfy my children's curiosity about the bag
>> of
>> weird looking orange bug doodoo I have on my desk, and to assure them
>> that
>> it's not made at the expense of using up some unrenewable endangered
>> resource.
>>
>> I have also just assured them that it's not really bug crap, but actually
>> something more like solidified aphid honeydew. Is that actually
>> accurate,
>> or is it really more of a fecal material?
>>
> After you show them it comes from bugs also tell them all the things they
> eat that is coated in shellac. Some things that come to mind are fruits
> and vegetables, some medication is coated.
candy, like m&ms.
And jeff Jewitt has the history of shellac as an article, search his
site www.homesteadfinishing.com
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:21:25 GMT, Dave in Fairfax <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Silvan wrote:
>snip
>> I'm trying to find this to satisfy my children's curiosity about the bag of
>> weird looking orange bug doodoo I have on my desk, and to assure them that
>> it's not made at the expense of using up some unrenewable endangered
>> resource.
>>
>> I have also just assured them that it's not really bug crap, but actually
>> something more like solidified aphid honeydew. Is that actually accurate,
>> or is it really more of a fecal material?
>
>http://green-alan.tripod.com/ReferenceNtoZ.htm
>http://www.yellow.co.nz/site/ambrosehealfurniture/
>http://www.shellac.net/information.html
>http://www.woodworkingshows.com/shellac.htm <How it's harvested
>http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/ezine/archive/66/qanda.cfm
><Pix
>http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/topics/goods.htm <Uses
>
>Hope that helps some.
>Dave in Fairfax