Paintballs - A tasty treat
So what are paintballs made of? This is a well covered topic, and there is even a tv documentary showing how paintballs are made. Way back in the 1970’s paintballs were actually an oil based paint with a glass shell! They were used by farmers and ranchers for marking trees and livestock. It wasn’t until the late 70’s that a few inventive americans had the brilliant idea of playing a capture the flag game with some Nel-spot pistols. Early on in paintballs popularity, oil based paintballs were still in use and “turpentine parties” were a common after game event.
Modern paintballs may contain polyethylene glycol, gelatin, sorbitol ( an osmotic laxative ), glucose, wax and food colouring. Paintballs are water soluble, non toxic and relatively safe to eat. However because of the sorbitol content, eating a few paintballs can have a laxative effect. My friends cat can attest to this, after a quick snack of a handful of paintballs. I can’t understand how any animal could eat more then one, since paintballs are the most vile tasting thing ive ever had the misfortune of sampling.
Now publicly available are a plastic shelled, pepper spray like filled, paintball simply called a pepperball. Meant as a way for law enforcement to incapacitate someone, these pepperballs are carried by some paintball retailers and major big box outlets.
Tags: osmotic laxative, paint, Paintball, pepperball, turpentine parties
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