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Thanks to User:Chameleon for the Greek derivation. --Mothperson 1 July 2005 04:44 (UTC)
Could someone create a pronounciation key for this page? "dra-ZHAY", but with those funny pronunciation characters... unless I've got it wrong. -HiFiGuy 22:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- According to The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages by Terence Scully, the dragée were originally spiced sugar-based candy used as digestives to conclude a meal, not coated almonds. Any comments?
- Peter Isotalo 12:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
"Dragee" = "coated tablet"
editThe meaning of "dragee" in this article should be disambiguated from the meaning of the term in pharmaceuticals, namely a "coated tablet". See Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th edn., s.v. Thomas.Hedden (talk) 20:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Removed addictiveness claim
editI removed this unreferenced statement, which does not adhere to the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy. -- Beland (talk) 19:57, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Metallic dragées are known to be profoundly addictive for some people. American actor John C. Reilly has a severe addiction to metallic dragées.
Nutcracker reference
editI am sure I am not the only one to come to this article because of Tchaikovsky's Danse de la Fee-Dragée. The usual modern translation is "sugar plum". Were sugared plums dragees too? Only if dipped in a hard enough coating? Would be nice to see the holiday confection at least mentioned, if anyone has information to share about it. TaigaBridge (talk) 00:09, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
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Poor quality sources
editThe claim about "dragati" originating in Rome comes from a candy website with zero citations. 24.18.226.231 (talk) 01:57, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- I've looked up the name "Julius Dragatus" in the PW:RE (a classical encyclopaedia which contains near enough *all* ancient Romans of *any* note whatsoever, even those mentioned one time in only one extant text), and found nothing. Likewise, I've searched the root "dragat"- in the PHI and TLG (corpuses of nearly all latin and greek ancient texts), and found nothing. I've also searched "julius dragatus" in a database of academic articles (SOLO - the Bodleian library search tool), and again found zero references. I don't think the claim about Julius Dragatus is true (and if it *is*, it needs a much better source). 86.8.30.107 (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
"In the Middle East, Jordan almonds are considered an aphrodisiac..."
editI'm an Arab and I've never heard this in my life. Just to double check, I tried searching for Arabic sources mentioning this and could find nothing. I could only find this claim in English language blog-style websites without any citation, all using the same vague phrasing. It feels like a factoid that just got repeated round and round in circles. Could we get a better source for this? Something more academic, or specific (where in the Middle East? Turkey? Iran? the Levant? among Bedouins, villagers, or urban dwellers?) or just something from a Middle-Eastern-language source showing that this belief actually IS known within the region. It's possible that I missed something in Farsi or Turkish. Cheers! Lordesdentist (talk) 16:34, 26 May 2023 (UTC)