Halfbakery: Edible Receipts

Business: Credit Card: Security
Edible Receipts (+50, -6) [vote for, against]
A flipped bill never tasted so good!

I was in a restaurant the other day, and paid with a debit card. The receipt of said transaction included the last 4 digits of my social, and the entire CC#! This is amazing, I can't believe this kind of information was right in front of my face, in mostly undestructable form, as well.

I could buy a shredder, and shred everything. I could buy an incinerator, and burn it. But, I ponder more enjoyable methods..

This idea is to have restaurant reciepts that include pertinent information (and any reciepts for that matter) to be printed on bubble gum. I can clean my mouth after a chessburger and beer and rid the worries of identity theft all in one go!
-- daseva, Feb 07 2006

Would you like soy-based ink with that? Would_20you_20hand_...eipt_2c_20please_3f
Reminded me of this, courtesy of [Preicles]. [Shz, Feb 07 2006]

It's a start http://en.wikinews....invents_edible_menu
Hard to order if you already ate the menu.... [Giblet, Feb 08 2006]

Or alternatively ... Less_20identity_20t..._20receipt_20re-use
Same thought-process, dirtier mind. [Loris, Feb 08 2006]

Wafer/Rice/Sugar Paper http://www.sugarcra...misc/waferpaper.htm
I think this is the stuff im talking about... [Salmon Of Doubt, Feb 17 2006]

Citation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation
As requested by [notexactly] [8th of 7, Dec 06 2018]

Be cute if the bill came inside a fortune cookie.
-- DrCurry, Feb 07 2006

HA! I've been eating my reciepts for years already!
-- Letsbuildafort, Feb 07 2006

Yes, but you're a student and have little else to live on anyway.
-- normzone, Feb 07 2006

if you are what you eat, and you eat these, do you eventually become a cash register? +
-- xenzag, Feb 07 2006

Cha Ching!!!
-- daseva, Feb 07 2006

I've been looking on here for the Chessburger but can't seem to find it. Sounds like fun though: "Quarter Pounder 3 to Big Mac 5" etc.
-- Prak, Feb 08 2006

Edible just about anything gets my bun. Like [boysparks]' e-receipt idea.
-- wagster, Feb 08 2006

excellent. [+]
-- nth, Feb 08 2006

Accountants all over the world would cringe at this concept...."yeah lets eat the only evidence that this transaction ever occurred"
-- shinobi, Feb 10 2006

Baked.

My friend does this. Crams the entire thing into his mouth in one go. Swallows it too. Does notebook paper also. I'm wondering about newspaper...
-- DesertFox, Feb 11 2006

Well, with credit card receipts, there is a copy for both parties in the transaction. I guess their's could be paper, but I betcha they'd choose bubble gum given the choice.
-- daseva, Feb 11 2006

Kinda reminds me of the sugar paper I used to eat as a kid. That stuff was great. And 'Kosher' too, apparently. (see link)
-- Salmon Of Doubt, Feb 17 2006

Print them on rice paper, like chinese candies are wrapped in. Totally edible and gluten free.
-- elhigh, Feb 17 2006

Bum: "Hey buddy..."

Customer: "Piss off, I don't have any change!"

Bum: "I don't want your money. It's just that I haven't eaten in three days, and I was wondering if you had any documents you want destroyed. I'll eat them right here in front of you and all..."
-- ye_river_xiv, Mar 07 2007

What about the bubblegum dentist-bill :) I think he'll be happy with more clïënts
-- Willem, Mar 08 2007

edible atm papers yum
-- beanangel, Jul 21 2008

What's up with the word "clients" in [Willem]'s anno above? Has it got the pox? There's dots everywhere.

I hope it's not contagious. .. ......
-- Custardguts, Aug 04 2008

Have I ever mentioned that with the new laser printed reciepts, you can blacken the entire sheet by leaving it in a shirt pocket when you iron.
-- ye_river_xiv, Jan 04 2009

// My friend does this. //

I heard several years ago, around the time everyone was worried about BPA in water bottles, that receipt paper commonly contains BPA. If true, your friend probably got a lot more of it than even the most avid hydrators.
-- notexactly, Dec 06 2018

What you need is a small sachet of cellulase powder you can sprinkle on the receipt, which will convert it to glucose.
-- nineteenthly, Dec 06 2018

[citation needed]
-- notexactly, Dec 06 2018

As you wish.