The Perils of Paper Gold

If one were to watch CNBC (in spite of Financial Media: Worse than Useless), one might see one Jurg Kiener talking about the paper gold market possibly cracking. Which naturally raises the question in one's mind of whether one desirous of the shiny yellow stuff might actually want to take some delivery of some sort, custodial or otherwise. Of course one might also wonder why anyone would want anything to do with anything that utterly inedible. Yuck!