Maine’s famous red hot dogs have ditched the dyes and are being colored by crushed bugs instead

Maine has an iconic hot dog — a fiery red frank known as a "red snapper" — and the source its eye-catching color is soon to change.

W.A. Bean, the Bangor, Maine-based hot dog company that produces the snappers, is abandoning the Red Dye 3 food dye it used in its franks and replacing it with carmine extract.