Golden Apples

[Kurt Christ]

I'm not sure whather to put this in OM or here, so move it if there's an issue.

I want to pull a stunt handing out Golden Apples of Discord to random people. So far, I've got this plan:
Step One: Buy a bag of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Delicious
Step Two: Eat about half of them, becuase I love those fuckers.
Step Three: Write Kallisti on the remainder.
Step Four: Go to a place with a decent amount of pedestrian traffic and hand out apples to random people.

My question is, what is non-toxic, non-bad tasting, easily obtainable, and easily readable that I can use to write on the apples?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I can't think of anything that's edible, but a Sharpie would work. Or you could use a soldering iron to discolor the skin, which would work but they'd have to eat the apples right away or they'd go bad. Or you could use stickers.

[Kurt Christ]

Sharpie was my fist thought, but I would prefer something edible if I can get any suggestion for it. If not, Shapie it will be.

[Nast]

Could you pipe out the letters with cake-decorating frosting?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

sharpie is non toxic

frosting would chip/peel off too easily
(although it would taste a hell of a lot better)

[Roo]

There are also food coloring pens:
http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/coloring/pens.htm

Though I'm not sure I'd want to eat an apple that some random person gave me, particularly if it's got writing on it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oooo! That could be handy! Thanks Roo.

[Richter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6hKDi6wOU

PULL THE PIN

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6hKDi6wOU

PULL THE PIN

crap.

[Triple Zero]

you can just take a needle or knife-point and cut the letters in the peel. the lines will turn brown within minutes, and it's perfectly edible.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The only drawback is that the recipient has to eat it right away or it will rot, and also the recipient won't know whether the breached skin is tainted.

[Triple Zero]

in my experience, the rotting doesn't happen that fast, at least i've been able to keep apples with a cut skin for a week or so.

and the taintedness paranoia, yeah .. i think personally i would sooner eat an apple with a word cut in it than an apple that has something written on it [edit for clarity: with paint of a marker].

how about printing a bunch of small round stickers that say Kallisti (perhaps with a nice sacred chao design as well) and just slap those on the apples?

[Akara]

you could also get some of that sppray on food coloring and spray the apples actually gold...