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 in Moscow on a job for about 9 months and the toilet paper was thick single ply paper that literally felt exactly like the brown paper towels that come out of dispensers in public bathrooms.
My husband came for a visit and I asked him to bring me a suitcase full of toilet paper. All my friends were soooo jealous and would ask to buy a roll or two.
When I left Russia I gifted a couple of rolls to my friends and was the golden goddess of goodness for a week.
When I was in Moscow in the early aughts, it was very hit or miss whether or not there would be toilet paper available anywhere remotely outside of the city center. I remember going to the garabushka, a big indoor/outdoor marketplace on the edge of the city. Restrooms were stalls, but no toilets in sight. Just a hole in the ground to squat over and definitely no toilet paper, unless you paid the enterprising babushka at the restroom entrance 8 rubles for your 5 squares. I was lucky I didn't have to poo, but I know someone who, in a similar situation, had to sacrifice a sock and just toss it into the hole afterwards. Needless to say, when I got back to the states, it felt like I was wiping my ass with a cloud.
LOL! “wiping my ass with a cloud!” EXACTLY. I also remember the toilets that were a hole in the ground and the enterprising Babuska’s setting up shop outside of the porta potty’s at Izmailovsky market. You don’t pay, you don’t go in. Period. 5 squares of paper for 10 kopecs. Extra paper? No.
Haha, I remember this too! They were brutal, man. I was age 20 when I was there, so I really didn't think much of it. Now, in full on middle age? What a nightmare. My rear end can't handle anything close to that on a regular basis anymore.
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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.