What the hell. I put a couple of pieces of pizza on a piece of aluminum foil then placed it in the toaster oven. Ten minutes laater I took it out and all the cheese had melted onto the aluminum foil. I took a fork and scraped the cheese off of the foil and ZOWWWWWWWANNNNNGGGG. Ugh! I can still feel it in my fillings ten minutes later.
What the hell causes my body to go into complete shock just because I scraped some aluminum foil with a fork? It didn’t even make a sound.
Sh*t. Aluminium. That’s one word I always misspell no matter how many times I look it up. Mods, feel free to change the title. TYVM
You spelled it right, wishbone!
Cecil addressed this in one of his columns:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_121a.html
(I’d summarize, but frankly it’s a little too high-tech for me to really be able to rehash in a pithy sentence or two.)
Aluminum is the US spelling. in the UK and Australia, it’ aluminium, pronounced al-yoo-min-ee-um. As this is an international board, either spelling will do.
(Even that weird American one) 
MsWhatsit, the Cecil column has to do with the pain one gets when one chews aluminum foil. Wishbone apparently just scraped some with his fork.
Wishbone, was it a texture thing? I know for me I cannot stand to touch etched/frosted glass. The texture makes me feel all weird and I have to rub my hands together to make the feeling go away. It doesn’t affect my teeth though.
Are you sure you didn’t chew on the foil? 
Positive. That I would understand because the aluminum would be in direct contact with my teeth. I didn’t even touch the aluminum, I scraped it with a piece of steel. It sent shivers down my sides and I could feel it resonating in my teeth and all of my joints. An odd feeling. Try it, you’ll see.