Written on: 28/03/2011
These are not suitable for vegetarians as the company insist on using Cochineal to dye the cherry red. This dye is made from crushed up beetles! There is really no need to do this in this day and age as other companies use alternatives such as beetroot dye. When I pointed this out to Mr Kipling, their reply was that Cochineal gives the best colour and that beetroot dye turns an orange colour "which is certainly not what you or retailers would want". What a silly thing to say.
Mr Kipling...
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Written on: 11/04/2010
This review is for the Giant Birthday cake version. This is awful with the icing, the cake and the filling all different and inferior to the the normal size ones - avoid (read more)
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Guest's Comment
Written on: 24/11/2011
beetles and pigs are natural though? who cares its all the same chemically anyway. whats in a plant is just a different structure to that in a beetle