From breath strip to gunky paste (Wrigleys Extra Thin Ice)

Member Name: alocin

Product:	Wrigleys Extra Thin Ice
Date:	08/04/03 (82 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun to play with, Strong minty flavour

Disadvantages: Relatively expensive, Left with blue gunky mouth, Too many can be painful

I would say these are disturbing. If you think about it chewing gum is quite odd as well, but Thin Ice are definately strange. You should have at least seen them on the tv by now - that annoying advert seems to be on every time I look at the screen. Mr semi-slobbish boyfriend meets beautiful exotic girlfriend's parents and impresses her father with his stupid dance and fresh breath. Can you guess that I find this advert a bit tired now?

Wrigleys Thin Ice are "peppermint breath strips" - disolvable chewing gum is how I would describe it. According to the package - "each strip quickly and completely dissolves on your tongue instantly providing a great peppermint taste." They come in cool little plastic pots with flip up lids and are about 75p for 24 strips. Not that cheap but they come into the fun play with your food category so you expect to pay more than standard chewing gum.

They look like little strips of plastic or paper in a vivid blue colour. When I first saw them I thought they were like those plastic fish things you get in christmas crackers you hold in your hand and see how sensual you are - I wondered why people were putting them in their mouths! When you place one on your tongue it curls up then starts to dissolve. It does not disappear as fast as they show on the advert - you are left with the melty gunky remains you have to scrape off your tongue. Never get these wet or they will dissolve in your hand!

You don't taste anything to start with then it hits you - I think that it is more like extra strong mints than chewing gum. If you can't handle extra string mints then I advise you don't have these either. A friend was dared to eat 8 of these at once - down the side of his gums, under his tongue and on his tongue. His eyes watered and he couldn't eat anything for a while afterwards - this is the kind of mintiness that water only aggravates and it leaves your tongue feeling raw! Don't
try this at home!

I think that Thin Ice is the novelty product of the moment. It's fun to play with, but quite expensive. You can eat a polo or chew gum and it will be cheaper, and freshen your mouth just as much. You also aren't left with a blue, gunky tongue and teeth! You would not want to kiss someone after they had just had one of these, however fresh it left their breath!

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