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 (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?
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.
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.
Could you pipe out the letters with cake-decorating frosting?
sharpie is non toxic :)
frosting would chip/peel off too easily
(although it would taste a hell of a lot better)
There are also food coloring pens:
http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/coloring/pens.htm (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.
Oooo! That could be handy! Thanks Roo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6hKDi6wOU
PULL THE PIN
Quote from: Richter on April 20, 2008, 03:37:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6hKDi6wOU
PULL THE PIN
crap.
:sad:
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.
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.
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?
you could also get some of that sppray on food coloring and spray the apples actually gold...