Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
Comment on Delicious rocks
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
While it may or may not meet your contextual definition of ‘rock’,… lead tastes somewhat sweet, apparently.
The Romans boiled grape juice in lead pots to produce a kind of syrup that was used to sweeten wine.
Lead is uh, a neurotoxin and likely carcinogen, so probably don’t lick the sweet rocks too much.
According to:
galleries.com/minerals/property/taste.htm
… apparently borax tastes sweet and… alkaline?
Chalcantite is described as ‘sweet metalic and slightly poisonous.’
Melanterite is apparently ‘sweet, astringent and metallic.’
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
django@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.