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In addition, privileged families benefited from using silver eating utensils that often caused "a bluish-gray discoloration of the skin, thus becoming known as 'blue bloods.'" Argyria, an irreversible condition in which the skin turns blue or gray due to the buildup of silver particles, is the result of consuming silver solutions or flecks of the metal over long periods of time.
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This made silver-plated cutlery even more affordable, and so the middle class could have silver, and eat with dignity.
Most of the silver we eat passes through our bodies via the large intestine within a week, and we're unaffected.
Since "eating silver balls" isn't exactly a religious tradition traced back to the Three Wise Men (though they did like their gold), Christmas can probably survive without them.
"And of course that's Dan Avila, Mikee continues, gesturing to a silver-haired man eating chicken wings whose resume spans six different game shows.
I use silver nail polish and eat off silver dishes.
And that's when a frigate bird swooped in, plucked them, one by one, from the silver waves, and ate them for breakfast.
The Great Lakes, for all their beauty and wonder, have no natural defenses against bighead and silver carp, which eat so much plankton that they threaten to decimate the food chain of any body of water they inhabit.
They come on a little white dish (main courses are served on silver platters), and you eat them using heavy silver forks with cursive monograms.
Silver-plate asparagus tongs for eating or serving, $6.50, at William-Wayne & Company.
I thought the purchase would amuse my husband, but he recoiled: "Uch, that's like eating off Hitler's silver".
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