Edam cheese wax

[Romeo]

what is the wax made from that is used to coat edam and other dutch cheese?

[snapdharlich]

Wax?

[brachiopod]

It's a food grade microcrystalline petroleum wax.

[tubeway]

So its wax then?

[brachiopod]

Petroleum wax, yes.

As opposed to bees, carnauba, polyethene, Fischer-Tropsch or Montan waxes.

[normyc]

Not ear wax then.....thats what my dad used to tell me!

[brachiopod]

Don't be stupid, normyc, everyone knows that the sole commercial use for ear wax is the coating for chicken McNuggets.

[gastwo]

As a bit of trivia, we used to manufacture it at the Kaduna oil refinery in Kaduna, Nigeria in the 1980's. They might still do so as far as I know.

[Trillipse]

though eating it has never harmed me, do i lower my potential to be treated as a proper human by so doing.

i do it 'cause my dogs do, and possibly in an attempt to get treated as well as they in the household.