Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-11
REFUSE As FOOD
WASTE FROM CANNING FAcTo-
RIEs MADE INTO JELLY.
Hog Liver Dried and Ground Sold az
Coffee-Bones Powdered and
Mixed With Flour.

Paul Pierce. in Public Opinion
In selecting the material for the best
grades of canned fruits 1t Is necessary for
the employees to remove the peels and cores
OF the various fruits and also all the de-
composed and worm-eaten spots. These
peels and cores and worm-eaten spots
worms Neutrality-suspicious. with all the
spoiled fruit of apples. pears. peaches and
every other kind, are dumped together and
made into general pulp. From this pulp.
made Of the refuse of all kinds Of fruits,
is turned out a marvellous variety of differ
ent brands of highly colored and tempting
looking bottled and canned goods. From
this same pulp ccnglomeration Is made
pure apple jelly" pure currant jelly"
alleged plum and ounce jellies and jams.
apple butter and no end of different kinds
OF preserves and pie material 1t makes
little difference as to the appearance and
taste of the pulp or principal ingredient.
The fiavoringS and chemicals will make up
for all former deficiencies in appearance or
lack of resemblance to the fruit 1t Is sup
posed to represent.
Nothing Too Bad to Sell.
mention fruits just by way Of illustra-
ton; the same conditions are true in the
manufacture of foods of all other classes.
The residue is always made into market
able authorizations. If not by the factory
that turns out high-class brands, then by
associate factory given another name
for the purpose of protecting the name of
the actual manufacturer. Some of-the big
packing houses collaborate with lower
grade houses, supposedly run by other firms.
that utilize all the stock rejected by the
big firms, and market all inferior products
cast off by the firms that are so cautious
Of their reputation. WORKOUT horses and
mules, and those crippled or otherwise in
i,,-o 20, tvD, ~a1ffo 30 khov, For
ice as beasts of burden. have been butcher
ed and the meat served in restaurants and
on free-lunch counters as roast beef corn
ed beef, beef stew, etc. HoOfs of horses
and cattle are used not alone for the man
ufacture of CLUES and mucilage, but often
for making vfscOuS substance, which, 1t
Is claimed, is used in the manufacture of
the lower grades of gelatines and jellies.
An enormous amount of cheap jelly is
made in Chicago from soused pigs feet and
other meats, glucose and fruit refuse chem
ically treated and given names of different
fruits DR.. Leon S. Waters, expert in food
chemistry, recently said that hogs nvers
were dried, baked. powdered and mixed
with chicory and coffee essence and sold a.
ground coffee.
Pick-Ups From City Streets.
But even the residue of the factories is
not sufficient to appease the seeming hum
ger for the lower-grade foods. 1t Is fact
that pick-ups from the city streets, the
cast-off products from big commission
houses and the gleanings from the sewers
are often employed in produce manufacture
under Americas remarkable system of
Commercial economy" Even seaweed Is
brought into to supply the demand.
From sea moss is made gelatinous sub
stance known as aga-aga. Mixed with
small amount of pulp from cast-away fruit.
a little starch and gelatine. it is dyed and
favored to resemble different kinds of fruit
products, and is labeled strawberry, cram
berry. raspberry. apple, ounce, etc. O.d
bones from the alleys are ground into dust,
which is utilized principally as a fertilizer,
but some times IL mixed with flour. 1t has
been claimed that leather from old boots
and shoes gathered from the streets and
scrap piles Is chemically treated, mixed
with chtcory, ground, and made into a
clever imitation of coffee, the kind that Is
usually drunk by sailors and workmen in
logging camps. More and more Is 1t be-
coming so that nearly everything thrown
into the streets and alleys of American cit
les Is turned into foods
Foods made from these loathsome trashes
are, of course not conducive to longevity
nor healthful constitutions; but the danger
Is not so much in these as in the ingredi-
ents used in giving them the appearance of
legitimate goods. Such powerful sweets as
saccharine, possessing three hundred times
the sweetenng strength of sugar; glucose
and potent chemical sand colorings are en-
ployed IN making these authorizations pos
Sible and exceedingly profitable.