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I had the need to pay a visit while busking in Florence train station back in the late 80s and, once I’d finished, I realised that there was, of course, no toilet roll. As luck would have it, I had some green rizla papers on me and so, carefully sticking the dozen or so left in the packet together, managed to fashion myself a couple of sheets.
A thoroughly grim experience
I endured it at both primary and secondary school.
Whether this continued all the way through the 70’s and 80’s I am not sure, but 100% there was something strange going with regards to why it was stocked.
There is no way this would have been chosen as a product to use unless it was part of a larger deal, or something underhand happened.
Local authorities knew this was a bad product, but continued to push it on the kids despite its lack of functionality.
The single most popular sanitary company that provides toilet paper, hand drying paper, hand drying machines, air fresheners etc is a global company called Tork. Look them up.
The real reason why they are so successful is clear;
Tork is cheap.
The old joke was that an Izal advert would be " Let's start a smear campaign'.
I remember this stuff at primary school but don't remember ever using it.
Sometimes, if I had a runny nose, I'd get a sheet of a4 and crumple it up several times until it became nice and soft.
There's a reason the French do camping better, and it ain’t just the weather.
"Had a conversation with some strangers on the Internet about wiping your arse on tracing paper in the 80's"
Who knows, maybe they intuited that there was something in the experience that would score a direct hit with old ladies.. For the rest of us, Izal was nothing short of an abomination!
The paper was nasty, but I liked the way the box fit into the dispenser, it was quite neat and pleasing.
At least you had something to read whilst doing your business.