# Is Goldschlager dangerous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 26, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954 "2007-08-26T02:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/1 "2007-08-26T02:26:20Z")
Goldschlager is cinnamon schnapps with gold flakes in it. My question - is there enough gold in it to pose a risk of heavy metal poisoning? ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/2 "2007-08-26T02:29:29Z")
Apparently the human body can’t digest precious metals, this according to [Goldschläger - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschl%C3%A4ger) ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/3 "2007-08-26T02:32:38Z")
Drink lager and crap Gold. Thousands spend every weekend trying to attain these dizzy heights. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/4 "2007-08-26T02:38:49Z")
Gold is pretty nonreactive. You’d die from the alcohol long before you had to worry about the metal. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/5 "2007-08-26T03:00:02Z")
Dangerous 'cause it tastes like hate, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/6 "2007-08-26T03:02:06Z")
Gold is almost completely nonreactive with regard to solvents found in the human body; hence, its use in tooth caps and fillings. (There is evidence that a few people have some kind of an allergic reaction to gold, but it’s unclear how or why.) Drink all the Goldschläger you want, except for the fact that it’s a nasty schnaps liqueur that will give you a terrible hangover. Anyone who combines it with Jägermeister gets what they deserve. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/7 "2007-08-26T03:24:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent] Goldschlager is cinnamon schnapps with gold flakes in it. My question - is there enough gold in it to pose a risk of heavy metal poisoning? [/QUOTE] Google on _heavy metal poisoning_ and you’ll see that gold, while considered a heavy metal, is not listed among the **toxic** heavy metals. In other words, just because there is such a thing as heavy metal poisoning doesn’t mean that **all** heavy metals are poisonous. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-goldschlager-dangerous/416954/8 "2007-08-26T03:57:06Z")
Poison are _not_ heavy metal, they’re a bunch of pussies.