"Eric Jorgensen" > wrote in message
news:20050128224222.0a28d175@wafer...
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:56:21 -0700
> "D.Currie" > wrote:
>
> >
> > I'll second that notion. Just because it's not toxic doesn't mean I want
> > to eat it in quantity. Or actually, at all. That's the type of thing
I'd
> > pick off and set aside.
>
>
> If you have any amalgam fillings, you have far more to fear from having
> them in your mouth than gold, especially the amount of gold that ends up
on
> a cake.
>
> Which is to say, basically nothing to fear. the gold is non-reactive -
> your amalgam fillings will react with aluminum.
>

I was thinking more from a design standpoint. In my opinion, a fully gilded
cake would be tacky unless you were Liberace.