pewter

Acidity + pewter plates makes for a bad time.

I doubt any but the very rich could afford pewter tableware.

Warmed, mildly acidic fluid in a pewter vessel would pick up a bunch more lead than plain old water would.

Lead, or pewter [0]? Which was and still does sometimes contain lead which acidic drinks like wine can leach the Pb into solution.

TIL George Orwell's preferred vessel was a "strawberry-pink china pewter mug".

After all, the fast majority of applications are satisfied just fine by cast iron, brass or pewter. At the time at least.

This is why I use leaded pewter kitchenware exclusively. /s

Commonly made from pewter, and often swallowed by small kids and babies. - Vinyl miniblinds.

And I'll be honest, and this is not the fault of tiltfive but I really like the weight of a pewter figurine in my hand and the lack of any haptic feedback might bother me.

Tomatoes took a while to get popular in Europe because rich people where eating them off of pewter plates and the acid in the tomatoes leached the lead out and made them sick. It was the poor people without pewter plates that made tomatoes in Europe popular.

For a long time, we didn't know that silver or copper was antibacterial, but we knew that if you ate with it, you would get less sick, same with pewter pots leaching out lead with acidic compounds in the food.

Fabric dye wouldn't be high on my list of things to work on, nor would post-it-note glue or felt, leatherette sofas or shampoo which smells of flowers and has sea cucumber in it, asbestos, pewter, even cardboard is only useful because people post things to me in it - I don't do anything with it. With no postal system and not many things, what would we want with cardboard?

> To create his photograph, Niépce treated a heated pewter plate with bitumen of Judea, or Syrian asphalt, a naturally occurring asphalt with light-sensitive properties. > Historians suspect Neolithic peoples used the camera obscura effect in some of their monuments.

Can you be the best site for selling pewter figurines, plumbing supplies or bowling equipment? I think you can! By niching down you can develop a reputation, have a custom-tailored search and navigation setup, etc. As you start getting more customers and income, you can broaden your offerings. For instance pewter figures -> fantasy art -> fantasy books -> board games.

Out of monopoly glasses he drank monopoly wines and monopoly spirits; out of pewter mugs made from monopoly tin he drank monopoly beer made from monopoly hops, kept in monopoly barrels or monopoly bottles, sold in monopoly-licensed ale-houses. He smoked monopoly tobacco in monopoly pipes, played with monopoly dice or monopoly cards, or on monopoly lute-strings.