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Toothpaste

I am here today to question a very widely held assumption.

I understand that mint is a refreshing flavor, but I really don't understand how it is that it has become almost the only flavor anyone ever thinks to make toothpaste. What's with that? How very uncreative.

My personal flavor preferences aside, I just don't see why toothpaste companies seem to have a fixation with mint. There are so many different flavors which could be seen as enjoyable and refreshing to use for toothpaste, but they are rarely tried. It seems no one ever even thinks about the possibility of toothpaste being anything other than mint. They just take it for granted.

But why does toothpaste even need to be zesty in the first place? Of course you want to feel like you have cleaned your teeth, and probably wouldn't enjoy Bacon flavoured toothpaste, but why is mint the only 'clean' flavor? Why not Lemon? Why not Pine!? :P Well I'd enjoy pine toothpaste anyways. Why not have Parsley flavor? Or perhaps a nice comforting Vanilla? Licorice or Ginger might be nice. Green tea sounds good too. Seriously, why not? Why is it the major brands don't try these things, or don't market them much if they do?

It just strikes me as illogical and inexplicable that mint should be the only flavor considered suitable for toothpaste. How did this come to be the assumption? Why-ever would toothpaste companies not cash in on all the additional options they could offer? They do all the varieties of mint, but whyever would they not branch out further than that? It just really doesn't make sense to me at all.

I randomly feel like making an entry that is of no consequence whatsoever

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It has been raining and there has been lots of cazy wind today. It fit perfectly with the Sherlock Holmes story I was reading earlier in which it was saying the wind was battering wildly at the windows.

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Danish Cookie Dilema

You know those "Danish" cookies that come in round tins that you see all over around Christmas time? Have you noticed that they are not all the same? Have you also noticed that while they all seem to use the exact same immages of these cookies, after the tin is opened they don't always look like they do on the outside? It seems to me that the real ones are getting harder and harder to come by. I find this quite annoying. Some of them don't have the large sugar crystals like in the pictures, just normal sugar sprinkled on top - which is Not the same. It has an entirely different effect. Some of them don't even have any sugar on them at all which is terribly disappointing! Now normally there are a couple types in the tin that don't have it, but I've encountered tins in which all the ones that normally do have the sugar don't. And then there are the ones that are much too soft and crumble apart into fine dust almost at a mere touch. The Real ones are hard crisp short-bread like cookies, but these alternate ones seem to be a lot more airy, don't have the proper crunch, and turn slightly chewey and stale really fast. There are also the ones that taste like coconut which is just wrong! The trouble is that there is no way to tell if you've got the right ones before they are open, and then it's too late to take them back.