Fake Blood

It's Halloween. It might be the only time of the year you can use this concoction.

If you need some realistic-looking blood for a fancy food spread or a child's gory costume, here's how you make it:

1 1/2 cups Karo light corn syrup
1/2 cup Rose's Grenadine
Bottle of red food coloring
3 drops of blue food coloring
Clean, empty glass jar
Spoon

Mix together in a jar to produce a nice, deep blood red.

Factoids about fake blood:

Hershey's Chocolate Syrup was commonly used as fake blood in black-and-white Hollywood movies.

Lobsters have blue blood.

People who live in high altitudes have more blood than people who live at sea level.

For more facts, go here.

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[Via Joey Green's Mad Scientist]

Comments

[LC]

And yes mom, it'll stain!

[Shawn Lea]

Or if you're lazy, like me, buy it from Oriental Trading Company. I did...last year. It was quite a hit with the five-year-old boy crowd! (Along with the gumball eyes and the jelly worms.)