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I'm at a party, taking just a couple minutes out to tell you that gold

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has an E number. E numbers are the numbers given by the

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European Food Safety Group -- or whatever -- and gold is technically

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a food additive. You can have it for
decoration or -- you know, in little

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drinks or something like that. You can also get it in this form: you can get it as gold leaf.

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And this is--well for gold, it's quite cheap. Each sheet

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costs about £1 and that is because it's so unbelievably thin:

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less than a micron. It's been rolled and rolled and rolled and

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flattened and put into this little
booklet. And, uh...

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Well, that means you can do all sorts of things with it but one thing you can do is

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with a bit of luck...you can...
Got to be really careful here because--

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--Do you want to just get a close shot of that?
And so, with a bit of luck

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I should be able...

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I have gold plated my tongue for about £1.

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And that is something you might not have known.

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-Ah! That does not taste good.

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-Does anyone else want a go? I've still got one left.

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And yes, since you asked that, it's pretty much going to go

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unaltered, through me.

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