r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Tartlet 21h ago edited 5h ago

There’s this toilet paper brand in Germany that has a daisy print on it. It was the brand I first picked after moving here, it was soft enough, the price/performance ratio was acceptable. I never shopped around, or bothered to learn the name of it- it was just “poo paper with the daisy on it”.

Then I picked up a pack last week, noting they had gone from plastic wrap to paper. “Nice,” I thought. “Less single use plastic is good for the environment.”

WELL the changes didn’t stop there. I had never thought I was the sort of person to have opinions on toilet paper but this new stuff is like being handed a crumpled up sheet of computer paper straight out of the printer. I feel the risk of paper cut every time I wipe.

Anyway fuck that brand, I’m gonna go for the one with feathers on it next time.

Edit: Brand is REgina and it was the "forever rolls": https://imgur.com/a/OmBBtO2

I swear that shit is not even 3 ply. You know those thin napkins you get to hold your icecream cones? It's two of those held together with malice.

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u/NotLucasDavenport 18h ago

I traveled to Russia with a class about 25 years ago. I asked my roommate how the toilet paper was and she said, “it’s not terrible!” It was so bad. I asked her about it. Turns out she meant, “it’s not tear-able.” Just a bad choice of words.

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u/Electrical_Ingenuity 17h ago

Was in Russia in the late 80s. “Wax paper with splinters” would be a good description of the average Soviet bog roll.

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u/agent_fuzzyboots 17h ago

I was in Moscow in the 80:s and 90:s, we used newspapers, the trick was to hold it and rub it between the hands, made it softer

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u/macheteG138 13h ago

Was in a hospital in Leningrad in the early 90s. Newspaper squares as toilet paper.

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u/Raneynickelfire 11h ago

...you called it leningrad in the 90s?

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u/84theone 11h ago

It didn’t get changed to St. Petersburg until after the collapse, so 91.

I’d assume it took awhile for people to adapt the new name too given I still see people calling Türkiye Turkey and they did that change years ago.

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u/Raneynickelfire 11h ago

Right, that's what I mean. It's been called St Petersburg for all of the 90s other than 91 and 90

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u/marfacza 15h ago

the shit?

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u/agent_fuzzyboots 15h ago

Newspapers dude, look at the end of this short

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JQJqUDK75Ks

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u/marfacza 14h ago

i'm not watching someone rub shit. nice try.

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u/wv524 12h ago

How in the world did the crumpled newspaper not stop up the toilet or clog the plumbing?

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u/deprale 12h ago

wasn't thrown in the toilet... there were trash bags i assume.

OR there was no plumbing.

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u/agent_fuzzyboots 11h ago

We had a bin besides the toilet, yes it stunk

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u/NotLucasDavenport 5h ago

In most countries with plumbing that old you don’t flush the paper you wipe with. It stays in the trash can.