Broken Hearted

My most favorite chocolates is colored with Carmine. One of the most disgustingly derived food colorings around.

Pat and I went on a date last night. Dinner was at PF Changs (thanks David and Angela). It was very enjoyable and delicious.

After dinner we went to a book store, while in the book store I realized that their was a Harry and David in the mini mall that we were at. I LOVE their chocolate covered cherries and couldn't resist being so close to the store. We ended up with both the cherries and chocolate covered raspberries (they were 2 for 20).

While eating them today I stupidly decided to check the ingredient list. They use Carmine for the nice red color for the outer chocolate shell. You can read all about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine. But in a nutshell they boil bug carcases and use the bug broth (some sources list using the bug shells ground up as well) to color all sorts of foods and products.

I tried to enjoy my chocolates but dispite loving them for years I just can not bring myself to eat them. Hopefully time will heal this wound and allow me to enjoy them again one day. (If you know of any good ones that are not colored at all let me know!)