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[–] sanpedropeddler 163 points 5 months ago (2 children)

By doing this they have effectively secured their survival. We will never stop growing them.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Unfortunately.

I hate mint, it's been put into WAY too much damn stuff, and is 98% of toothpaste flavors. It took me way to long to find a toothpaste that was JUST cinnamon not "Cinnamon-mint" or "minty cinnamon" or "Cinnamon with a BLAST of mint" just plain cinnamon.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

i don't hate mint but i really want to try cinnamon toothpaste now

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's called CloseUp, I've found it in most US grocery stores although it's usually shoved to the bottom shelf

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Thanks! I'll see if I can find it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I love mint, but cinnamon toothpaste is absolutely god-tier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

i never knew that lol, that's cute

i am the opposite of a tiger

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It would make meal time so much better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Me, too. I haaaaaate mint toothpaste.

Just discovered coconut ginger toothpaste a little over a year ago. I'm sticking with this toothpaste for life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like mint in general but hate mint toothpaste, try children's toothpaste, it often comes without mint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is esoteric toothpaste that has no mint due to it blocking homeopathy. It is otherwise identical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow. The practitioners of a dumb pseudoscience are even dumber than expected? Who'd've thunk?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

How is the validity of pseudoscience relevant to mint free toothpaste?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

dr bronners cinnamon toothpaste is the best

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The other thing their evolution has done is make it so we can't stop it growing lol. Never ever plant that stuff in anything but a container. Maybe not even that. It spreads by wind and magic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You are NOT kidding!

I've got a stubborn patch of mint growing in a big ceramic pot with an endangered dune cactus, and they get left to fend for themselves 24/7-365 outdoors at a beach cottage... in New England!

Both plants have thrived in their pot for nearly two decades now!