Dragée
Dragees, (PROSE: Our Flavours [+]Loading...["Our Flavours (feature)"]) also nicknamed "edible ball bearings", were a type of sweet, often used to adorn cakes. They looked like small silver balls. Multiple incarnations of the Doctor were fascinated by them, the Tenth Doctor in particular claiming that humans were the only species in the galaxy who had ever bothered to invent them. (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"]) The Eleventh Doctor considered ball bearings his favourite. (COMIC: The Dalek Project [+]Loading...["The Dalek Project (comic story)"])
The Fourth Doctor offered K9 a bag of sweets and asked if he would like a ball bearing. K9 asked him not to mock. (TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])
The Fourth Doctor also ate edible ball bearings on Dronid, mentioning that he'd gotten a craving for them. (PROSE: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (novelisation)"])
The Tenth Doctor commented on his fascination with edible ball bearings while taking Rose Tyler to see the 2012 Olympics in London. Rose later got the Doctor a cake adorned with ball bearings. (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"])
When a police force was trying to uncover Mamps, Cosmo and Leeb Slitheen from their stone prisons with a want conduit, the Doctor stopped them and arranged that the conduit could only be turned on by thinking about sunflowers and ball bearings. (PROSE: The Slitheen Excursion [+]Loading...["The Slitheen Excursion (novel)"])
Millingdale's Silver Giant ice cream was packed with dragees. (PROSE: Our Flavours [+]Loading...["Our Flavours (feature)"])
