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[–] [email protected] 131 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (26 children)

they used to put brick dust in chocolate bars, and sawdust in bread

edit: heck, they just caught someone recently intentionally putting lead in ~~applesauce~~ cinnamon that was used in applesauce, which has been used off and on as a sweetener since at least ancient rome, where a bunch of people went crazy and died from consuming a sweetener made by boiling grapes in lead pots

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

I mean if you think about it, cinnamon is essentially sawdust right?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Not wrong...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Very wrong. Cinnamon is king.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I just mean because cinnamon (the spice) is the bark of the cinnamon tree, which when ground up is a form of sawdust. Delicious sawdust, but sawdust, nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Cinnamon (Cinnamomum) is the genus not the species. There are Ceylon trees and Cassia trees and a bunch of others but no specifically Cinnamon trees.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

TIL

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

TIL. Fascinating!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ha, I did not know that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just in case you weren't actually aware, that wasn't a statement about the quality of cinnamon as a spice. It's literally made frome ground up tree bark.