[Sca-cooks] Re: dissolved pearls

[Olwen the Odd]

Well, or you could simply make pearls from sugarplate and brush on some
irridecent white after they dry.  They would certainly dissovle then.  And
at only the fraction of the cost of real pearls!
Olwen

>   What I was thinking was that either she or Pliny could have just told an
>outright lie. No need to have a pearl in there at all, or even have it
>dissolved if she did put a pearl in the glass. She could have just
>swallowed
>the thing whole.
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>>Hmm. The Story I heard was she had a bet on over who could provide the
>>most expensive meal. The 10M secester pearl put her meal over the top.
>>On a side note- one aspect of pearl valuation is their Luster-i.e. shiny
>>smoothness, and the etching caused by even a weak acid would likely
>>greatly reduce that feature.(just guessing here...) Betsy
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