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[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 124 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (25 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

[–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't there lead found in other spices, too? Like tumeric or something?

Yep!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5415259/

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