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Mmm... mimetic polyalloy (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 21 hours ago

When I was younger we often used to decorate cakes with these little silver balls, and I sometimes wonder what was in them that was so bad that they don't seem to make them any more...

[-] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Aluminium foil.

[-] vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 20 hours ago

got me curious so i looked it up and they were called dragées apparently

since 1906, U.S. regulations have prohibited the manufacture or sale of any food that uses any metal or mineral substance—including silver—as a food coloring, coating, or additive.[8] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the silver and gold metallic-finish sugar dragées to be inedible, and they may be sold only when accompanied with a notice that they are to be used for decorative purposes only.[8] Almonds that have been coated the same way are not permitted at all.[8] Although metallic-finish dragées can be purchased in 49 U.S. states, they are no longer sold in California.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag%C3%A9e#Metallic_decorative_balls

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I tried biting one and I'm pretty sure those were just ball bearings.

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