Me-Mania
Lost in the delusion
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i was reading the ingredient list on a pack of toast bread the other day and got curious so i looked it up turns out the cheapest way to make e920 l-cysteine which they use to soften the dough and make it rise faster is literally human hair the crazy part is for years they were collecting bags of hair from barbershops in china and processing it in chemical plants to turn it into this amino acid then putting it into everything from frozen pizza crusts to fast food burger buns recently people found out and complained so they mostly switched to duck feathers or synthetic versions but on the label it still just casually says dough conditioner ever since i learned this my perspective on packaged bakery stuff is ruined honestly eating hair collected off a barbershop floor is insane 