Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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Tastes richer, less filling.

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Edible Pencil Lead
A cylindrical mint about 6 cm long and 0.5 mm in diameter
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When you're sitting in math class, you can give your mechanical pencil a few clicks and bite off the end.

Also available in 0.7 mm.


AO, Jul 10 2007

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       As a child, i used to eat pencil lead, and moved on to pencils, then desk lids. I ate my school quota of pencils and my parents had to provide the rest. Anyway, pencil lead is already edible. It doesn't taste of much, but you can grind it up with your teeth into a sort of paste, which has an interesting texture in the mouth. However, eating the actual pencil leaves splinters in your mouth and makes it quite sore. Also, the paint is probably poisonous and quite unpleasant to eat because it gets stuck in your teeth.   

       I wouldn't want it mint flavoured; i think it's fine the way it is.

nineteenthly, Jul 10 2007
  

       would it write?

po, Jul 10 2007
  

       //would it write?//
Of course - it would write sweet!

neutrinos_shadow, Jul 10 2007
  

       If the wood of the pencil was replaced with something edible, you could sharpen the pencil and have a snack a the same time.

marklar, Jul 11 2007
  

       Graphite is just carbon, so is non-toxic but it would need flavouring. The pencil could be any sugary product with a rice paper shell, so it doesnt get sticky

miasere, Jul 11 2007
  

       Chocolate is the only way to go.
...but I can't bite off the eraser, I really need that.

xandram, Jul 11 2007
  

       //it would write sweet// thanks, dear.

po, Jul 11 2007
  

       Cedarwood already tastes OK, but what about cinnamon bark?

nineteenthly, Jul 11 2007
  

       Why not create a Pez dispenser with a pencil attachment. It would be yummier than anything where the edible part is also expected to write.

phundug, Jul 11 2007
  

       [phundug] I didn't say you could write with it. This is just a way of sneaking candy into math class. If it were a Pez dispenser, the teacher would take it away.

AO, Jul 11 2007
  

       Sorry, I just assumed.   

       How about a gummi bear eraser to go with the edible "lead" then. When no one's looking, eat your eraser.

phundug, Jul 11 2007
  

       Oh, that's good. I was thinking maybe a mini marshmallow for the eraser, but gummi-bear material would last longer and look more realistic.

AO, Jul 11 2007
  

       //I didn't say you could write with it.// - Then you should have said so before. Now I understand that this is for use in an ordinary propelling pencil I will propel a croissant in your general direction.

wagster, Jul 11 2007
  

       //sucronic acid is 200 to 300k...// Treon, are you by any chance connected with Northern Ottawa Sucronic Acid and Blacktop, Inc.?

MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 11 2007
  

       "My worm went in my mouth and then I ate it. Can I have another?"

phundug, Jul 12 2007
  

       // who's the kids that says "Teacher, I ate my pencil" //   

       Ralph Wiggum, son of Police Chief Wiggum.

ed, Jul 12 2007
  
      
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