# That aluminum feeling **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 6, 2001, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992 "2001-09-06T05:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992/1 "2001-09-06T05:06:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992/2 "2001-09-06T05:14:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992/3 "2001-09-06T05:48:42Z")
You spelled it right, wishbone! Cecil addressed this in one of his columns: [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_121a.html](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.) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992/4 "2001-09-06T05:58:30Z")
**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) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992/5 "2001-09-06T06:09:23Z")
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? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-aluminum-feeling/79992/6 "2001-09-06T06:13:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by douglips \* > \*\*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.