# Can you eat black powder?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 18, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-eat-black-powder/656065 "2013-04-18T20:38:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-eat-black-powder/656065/21 "2016-02-11T02:35:35Z")

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Eat the black powder, then shoot off your mouth.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-eat-black-powder/656065/22 "2016-02-11T03:31:26Z")

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> [@Vince88](#):
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> This is great! By the way, I recommend eating fiberglass with your black powder

**Moderator Note**

**Vince88** , we prefer that old threads not be bumped except to provide new factual information. Since this does not, I am closing this.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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