Sad turn of events...Christmas just won't be the same.

There are no more silver dragées to be had in the free world. Well, you actually CAN get them on the internet if you live in certain states. I guess some well-meaning lawyer was "outraged" that the silver bullets were still for sale, even tho they were known to contain real silver and posed a risk of heavy metal poisoning, so he sued everyone from susiehomemaker to Martha Stewart. Well, I guess if you ate 3 or 4 bottles of them a day for your entire life, maybe they would have a toxic effect. But come on guy, there haven't been any known cases of toxic poisoning from these lovely little holiday decorations...and besides, how are we supposed to make our cookies sparkle if we don't have dragées? Here's the story. And a website you
can go to, to order them IF you don't live in any of the listed states. I feel like buying some of them, just because I can!

http://www.slashfood.com/2005/12/19/silver-balls-and-why-i-dislike-mark-pollock/

Buy them here:

http://www.fancyflours.com/dragees-silver-7mm.html

Thought for the day...

"Unskinny bop, just blows me away..."

Poison, the Heavy Metal rock band