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Immediately after cleaning your teeth it seems that anything you drink ends up tainted with a nasty taste. (possible exception being mint tea)
How about simply creating a toothpaste with all the active ingredients but remove that foul minty flavour that seems to be ruining my morning cuppa.
N.B.
I tried one of the baking soda based brands but it tasted horrible.
Seems to be baked
http://www.google.c...0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 [my face your, Oct 04 2004]
Bowk
http://www.gonmad.demon.co.uk/cumbria/ Is the Cumbrian spelling. [my face your, Oct 04 2004]
Boak
http://www.ullans.c...tsDictionary.html#b Is the Scottish spelling. [my face your, Oct 04 2004]
The answer?
http://www.newscien...rticle.jsp?id=lw108 sodium laurylsulphate [brownpaper, Oct 04 2004]
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I had some of this as part of a "complementary" in-flight wash kit on Cathay Pacific in the 80s. It gave me the boak. |
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oops, i only googled "flavourless" :) |
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I think the mint flavor (or what have you) is there to cover up something bad-tasting. |
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boak - Verb. To vomit. [Mainly N. England/Scottish use] |
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last visit to the vets my dog was diagnosed with bad teeth.
The vet gave us some tooth paste for him, Beef flavoured, he seems to like it. I wonder if it would be ok for humans aswell..... |
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coffee flavored toothpaste? I'd buy it |
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The stripes in it are green and magenta |
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hurl - Verb. To vomit. Onomatopoeic as much as very descriptive of the uncontrollable force of vomiting |
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Such romantic banter for Feb 14th. |
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Anyhoo - mint is a very strong flavour - not a taste. There are four tastes:- salt, sour, bitter and sweet. Toothpaste IS tasteless, it doesn't really have any of them : try holding your nose and putting a little bit of toothpaste in your mouth. You shouldn't really taste anything. Let go of your nose and then your flavour receptors in your nose have the mint sensation. |
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<aside> I always wondered how to spell boak correclty - boke, bolk, baulk etc </aside> |
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//The Mint Sensation// is an excellent name for a band. |
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I was of the impression is is spelled "bowk". |
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I think "bowk" is the English spelling. It's all about phonetics. "Boak" in Glaswegian sounds the same as "bowk" in Northern. |
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If this item in New Scientist is to be believed, it's nothing to do with the flavourings. See links.
In my experience this is probably true -- I used to use Eucryl(??) "smokers" toothpowder which didn't foam and didn't ruin your tastebuds. |
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Eucryl - my dentifrice of choice. ("Also available in 'Original' flavour.") |
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