well, this is slightly unexpected. i did not think i would ever feel compelled to write about the subject of toothpaste ever again, look you see. quite a few years have passed since the dark days of being involved with the murky (if not seedy) underworld of smuggling toothpaste what had love beads rammed into it for no given reason. yet here i am, or but here we are.
mostly this stems from me wishing to get a modest size tube of toothpaste for my recent travels to go and see Holly Johnson. it seemed a bit ridiculous to take a "regular" size tube with me for one night, even if in this ludicrous century it is so that toothpaste has become the main victim of "shrinkonomics". off i went shopping to see if i could find one of them quite small packs, meant for people intent on travelling as lightly as possible. no luck, alas. surprising, really as since we are in "summer", or at the least a time when people are off on holiday, i had assumed the usual shops where one gets such things would have them out (so to speak) for sale. won't be surprise if they only appear for sale around October or so, and then at a "reduced to clear" price.
that there above is the only tube of toothpaste what i could find that i deemed small. well, not, not the only one. beside this "peaches and cream" flavoured one they also had a lime one. neither, to be honest, seemed like good ideas for a toothpaste flavour, but this appeared to be the lesser evil. oddly, going on how many packets (or boxes, or tubes) of each remained on the shelf, the lime one appears the more popular. just who is it that brushes their teeth on a frequent (or regular) basis and has been saying that they wished the experience was more lime? well, the marketing types heard them.
provenance of this peaches and cream toothpaste? after trying a number of shops more renowned for stocking medical and/or health stuff, it was Poundland where i found this. yes, indeed it was one of the items which they still sell for, as the name of the business suggests and used to confirm, £1. whilst this tube was somewhat bigger than the "travel" one i wanted it's entirely possible it was cheaper than what i would have likely paid for that which i sought, so there is that.
above is my trusty and now (exceptionally) well travelled Bowie bag. i bought it a few years ago when there was the rare instance of a "sale" on the official Bowie website, which meant prices of items were slightly reduced to be closer to the real world cost of items, rather than what Iman (or whoever) thinks they are. quite a few of my friends (i don't have too many) were surprised when i went with this one, resplendent with a "Japanese" style, expecting me to go for a more well known, or if you like classical, design. this one just "spoke to me", and to be fair it has won many over. also i have had conversations with people about it, as people observing me wandering around find it quite striking. striking enough, at the least, to have speaks with me.
of the many class qualities this bag has, and yes i appreciate it seems i am side-tracked from toothpaste but hold on for it will all make sense (kind of), size and space is not, alas, one of them. when it landed my immediate thought was that it was somewhat smaller than i had hoped. doesn't even have pouches or pockets on the sides. decent "kangaroo" pouch (with zip) at the front, though. my dedication to using it does have a price, then, and that cost is having to be very selective about what i take with me in it on my travels here and there. hence me looking for a small tube of toothpaste.
so how was it? as in (or i mean) using the toothpaste? well, it got the job done, which is all i really expected. very foamy for a toothpaste, if i am honest. also the taste was, pretty much as i had anticipated, something that created the sense of brushing your teeth with gum, be it bubble or chewing in nature. unusual, but not all that bad. as i am both cheap and not keen on waste i suppose i will end up using all of this, mostly to get rid of it as throwing it out feels just wrong.
did the best i could to get a picture of the peaches and cream toothpaste "on the brush", so to speak, and that's what you have an image of there. i took it as a given that no good could come from me attempting a selfie whilst using it, and i certainly was not going to go around the hotel asking anyone if they would like to come back to my room and take a picture of me brushing my teeth.
risking sounding like my Dad and his fetish for the love bead loaded toothpaste i am rather surprise and certainly disappointed that spearmint flavoured toothpaste appears no longer to exist. normally, or usually, i would just get "whatever" toothpaste as a preference, usually just the cheapest of the known named brands. of late i have had a weird inkling to use a spearmint one, yet cannot find such anywhere. maybe they have rebranded it and i missed out on hearing the new name. strange that somehow there exists a market for peaches and cream (and lime) toothpaste, yet none no more for spearmint.
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