Amorous Badger (and Jolly Amusing Made Up Name)
Couldn't agree more.

Anyway, I've actually got a relevant answer this week...

For a mercifully brief time when I left school I worked in a food additives manufacturing plant.

My job was running the Gum Arabic line. Gum Arabic is the stuff they put in anything sticky to make it bind together - Mars bars, pork pies, paint, anything like that.

Some of the stuff in there was quite quite revolting, and it was a bit of a shock to think it was stuff you ate on a daily basis.

As an aside, many of the brainless cretins people I worked with did indeed declare stuff like "Uuurgh, I'm never eating another Mars Bar as long as I live!".

Now, I'm 34 - I've probably eaten several hundred Mars bars in my life, and they've never made me sick (apart from that time I ate a whole one in one bite, but that's another story). Knowing what's in them isn't suddenly going to make them disgusting is it, you morons? Just fucking eat it and shut up!

Likewise all the people who've posted stuff on here about eating in restaurants. I've never (knowingly) tasted any jizz, blood, pus, mucus or otherwise in my food, or been made sick by it, so until I do I'll keep going out to eat.

And finally, not all competitions are scams - courtesy of Guitarist magazine I won a rather lovely ESP guitar earlier this year! \o/
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 2 Oct 2007, 14:36, Reply)