Silver foil

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I'd like to see that. For some reason it isn't on youtube.

[Max Demian]

"Silver paper" is the more common British term for aluminium foil, as used to wrap chocolate bars, and has never been made of silver.

[Frank]

Here in US I once found a small unopened bottle of liquor containing flakes of gold foil. I drank it and don't recall anything special except the sparkly appearance.

[Steve Walker]

The local supermarkets sell Vodka with gold leaf pieces in.

SteveW

[Rob Morley]

Ooh, sparkly puke. :-)

[tabbypurr]

on aluminum foil but just one side and that you should use a lighter to bu rn off the coating before using it because the coating was bad for your hea lth, she then asked me why I was laughing.

there's no coating really. Denial's amazing isn't it.

[Peeler]

You've all been trolled! LOL Bunch of IDIOTS!

Should be a matter of only a few hours until you idiots get trolled AGAIN, after sociopathic Hucker's latest "big success"! LOL

[Roger Hayter]

Absolutely right! I misremembered - silver paper it was.

[Frank]

Also, sparkly poo, too ;)

[Rich Ulrich]

That was before my time.

The single use that I remember for silver foil was to make a tiny rocket.

You would wrap the silver tightly around the head and top of a paper match, with a pin laid along one side of the match; withdraw the pin to leave an exhaust channel; balance the rocket somewhere; hold a lit match under the wrapped matchhead and watch it zip away when the wrapped match ignited.

That was probably safer as an outdoor sport. In my case, it was mainly worth doing to see if it worked.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Never heard it called silver paper (in Scotland).

[RH Draney]

That would make a great title for a pop tune....r

[James Wilkinson Sword]

You must listen to considerably worse music than me.

[Peter Moylan]

Preferably not accompanied by a video.

[FMurtz]

Silver paper to me was laminated aluminium and paper as in cigarette packages and around chocolate etc.

[Peter Moylan]

AOL.

If people here want to refer to aluminium foil, they will call it silver foil or aluminium foil or tinfoil; never silver paper.

[harry]

It's made of aluminium. Silver refers to the colour.

[Brian Gaff]

Strangely though I was not around back then and it sounds just a little impractical for modern usage, though I've often wondered about what effect the oxide has on any food wrapped in it though if it had been an issue then the amount used around my sandwiches when I went to school should have killed me off long ago. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Yes but what about oxidisation, a common thing that stops ally from vanishing in a puff of smoke. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Yes sadly they would not let us melt anything silver at school to try this.. grin. Brian