• Flying Squid
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    148 hours ago

    They still used lead-based makeup and ate on lead plates.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 hours ago

      Lead plates are fine as long as you don’t eat anything that is both liquid and acidic. Pewter plates (when it was still made with lead) were used until very recently.

      • Flying Squid
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        127 hours ago

        Liquid and acidic like garum? The fermented fish sauce the Romans put on pretty much everything?

        • @[email protected]
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          47 hours ago

          Still not much in the grand scheme of things. Smelting lead to extract silver would have been a far greater contributor, especially since it makes the lead airborne as leaded fuel did recently.