Random Sunday night utterances

[vanillafluffy]

Today was productive in non-writerly ways: congregational meeting at church, new slate of officers elected. Saw B. and showed her the necklace I made for her wedding---she loved it, and we settled on the length. Watched SPN and sewed a rip in the inseam of that pair of thift shop pants I got week before last.

Agreed with someone's rant about heavily scented laundry products---not difficult, since I was ranting about S's use of that stuff not that long ago.

Another injustice that I really wish the powers-that-be would do something to rectify is, why the HELL does toothpaste have to be a) mint, b) cinnamon, or c) bubblegum? I swear, if there was such a thing as chocolate-flavored toothpaste, tooth decay would drop dramatically. Or a nice tart key lime---add a little vitamin C to the fluoride! And for weirdos like me, licorice---and don't say because it would make people's teeth black---just look at liquorice Altoids! I mean, come on, you can walk into Starbucks and get 400 flavors of coffee, how come toothpaste only comes in three?!

Not everybody drinks coffee, but everybody has teeth.

Comments

[winterwolfsong.livejournal.com]

I believe there is a brand of toothpast called Tom's which comes in licorice. It might just be the 'for sensitive teeth' type, though.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say no to that, my teeth are in abyssmal condition.

[socialhermit.livejournal.com]

I would TOTALLY embrace licorice, coffee or chocolate toothpaste!

I think Crest came out with something like Citrus Burst toothpaste. Not bad. Still pretty run-of-the-mill, though.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Oh goody, somebody else who likes licorice! Most of the people I know turn up their noses at good old-fashioned black licorice. (Whereas, the thought of it is giving me a craving for it...at 6 AM!

[socialhermit.livejournal.com]

I've loved licorice since I was a kid. Black jelly beans are my favorite, but I'll take any kind of licorice I can get. I've discovered that people tend to love it or hate it - but not much inbetween. Kinda like rhubarb!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Tom's of Main, Fennel toothpaste. Like liquorice, only white. and delicious.

There's terrifying lemon toothpaste in my bathroom upstairs as I type this. I've looked but not touched. That is firmly in the ex's toothpaste pot.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Ahh, must be a Brit thing. Grrr, I suspect that finding a source of that over here would be even harder than finding Marmite.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Can't get Tom's of Maine here actually. It's an American thing. Try a health food shop? :D

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I'll do that...one of these days when I have a job and some cash flow. *grimace* For now, I guess I'll have to make do with Sensodyne.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Tom's of Maine also makes children's toothpastes in strawberry and orange. When my son was small, he was hypersensitive to many tastes, and regular toothpaste was too sweet/minty for him. I sympathize with him -- everything but plain old-style Colgate makes me gag first thing in the morning. The Tom's is very mild-tasting.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if there's one thing I can't stand, it's brushing my teeth and then having the taste clash with my caffeine delivery system.

[teresa-c.livejournal.com]

I think Tom's of Maine has the drawback of not containing flouride (going for the all natural thing). Maybe someone can correct me. I often see Tom's in ordinary drugstores.

And boy do I agree with you about the lack of possible flavors! I happen to hate peppermint, and as a child I had a real struggle with establishing good teeth care because of that aversion. Then I read in a yoga book advice that you can clean your teeth without using any fancy "pastes" (it was an old yoga book when I was a child, so it was probably referring to a time before they added flouride to toothpaste) and I suddenly had permission to brush without toothpaste. I've done that ever since, and my teeth, while not without the occasional cavity, have suffered no worse wear than average. And it would have been bad if I'd had to keep tasting that awful minty stuff. I'd prolly have dentures by now.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll start looking around for Tom's when I get to the bottom of my current tube. My teeth are in wretched shape---I neglected them for a long time. Now I understand what the centenarian meant when he said, "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd've taken better care of my teeth."

BTW, I saw you signed up for NaNo. I'm vanillafluffy there as well.