In many US states, tampering with food is a felony. That seems especially appropriate for this case since toothpaste can be toxic if consumed in large amounts.
The additional resources to send your toothpaste many miles by plane, truck, etc in additional packaging because you don't want to travel to the local grocery store to buy it.
The proportion of my local supermarket given over to toothpaste is mind blowing. It's like the beginnings of some sort of Brontitallian Shoe Event Horizon.
For what is essentially just a mild abrasive plus fluoride, the baffling array of variations on a theme on display, mostly from the same few fmcg conglomerates anyway, is just ridiculous.
When you buy a new tube of toothpaste, one is generally liberal with the application of it. Big, fat generous gloops of minty freshness are applied to the brush, representing an obese caterpillar dressed in lycra. WTF?
reply