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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), the Hoax Forum, and the Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes.
The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.
The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), the Hoax Forum, and the Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes.
The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.Prankplace.com
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Do Bakery Products Contain Human Hair?
An old article on Albalagh.net (it was new to me) describes how numerous bakery products contain an ingredient made out of human hair, and are therefore not allowed to be eaten by Muslims. The offending ingredient is the amino acid L-Cysteine, which can be made out of feathers, hooves... or yes, human hair. Back in January I linked to a story about soy sauce in China being made from human hair, so when I heard about bagels, croissants, pizza dough, etc. also containing human hair, I immediately suspected that this human-hair-in-food thing may be a bit of an urban legend. But as far as I can tell, there is some truth to it. The Shenzhen government has stated that it's looking into the soy sauce/human hair allegations. And L-cysteine can be made from human hair, as this Australian food additives guide notes. But I can't imagine human hair would provide the cheapest source of L-cysteine for commercial producers of it. Where would they be getting the hair from? Unless Supercuts is secretly supplying bulk shipments of it to the bakery industry (now there's a disgusting thought).
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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Try India where hair is shorn off millions of heads each year at Tirupati. It is no secret that much of the hair is sold to make wigs. Other hair not being of good quality is sold to Chinese industry.
Posted by Ronald in New York on Thu Jun 03, 2004 at 02:36 PMI like to eat human hair, though.
Posted by Fred in Florida on Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 08:08 AMThe April 2007 edition of Harper's magazine does a piece titled the "Dietary Industrial Complex" that disects the contents of a musilim approved MRE (meal ready to eat) that mentions human hair and bakery products...
Posted by william farkas in hamilton ont on Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 04:37 PMHuman Hair mmmmmm................
Posted by Bob in Florida on Mon Aug 27, 2007 at 03:44 PMWhite flour usually contains the addative L-Cysteine which is sourced from animal hair feather and in some cases, human hair.
Awful but true.
To avoid eating human hair in your bread - buy 'Wholemeal' instead.
Avoid E120 (european clasification) red food colouring too if you don't want to eat dead beetles.
JimP
Posted by jim in wales (UK) on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 10:26 AMAwful but true.
To avoid eating human hair in your bread - buy 'Wholemeal' instead.
Avoid E120 (european clasification) red food colouring too if you don't want to eat dead beetles.
JimP
As a stylist for 25 years, I am used to eating a little hair with my food!
Posted by Sue in USA on Sun Jul 06, 2008 at 01:05 PMPage 1 of 1 pages