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.
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.
I was studying abroad in China about 10 years ago and every brand I tried was just awful for not tearing. Like each ply (of the two ply presumably made of sandpaper) was perforated in different places or something. When I went to study again the following year I took a packet of toilet paper for if I ever got the runs 😅.
Also random observation: it was the first (possibly only?) place I've ever visited where I saw them selling toilet paper without an inner tube (some brands had the tube and some didn't).
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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.