This morning I tried cinnamon flavored toothpaste and immediately flashed back to my youth. Anyone else remember cinnamon toothpicks? You had a slim little vial, about half the diameter of a lipstick tube with a cinnamon liquid in it. Flat toothpicks soaked in the vial. I recall they kinda burned your lips when you put one in your mouth. Funny how an odor or a taste can transport you back in time.

Oh yeah I remember those when I was a kid that was what I always wanted when we went to the store (which wasn't very often).

I would save that vile and reuse it as often as I could to try and make more of them.

Yeah, I remember those. I didn't care for them because they would burn your lips and tongue. You could get them in peppermint as well for awhile and those I liked.

Jim

I remember them too, and I liked them. I remember the 7-11 down the street carrying those. They were on the front counter next to the Mexican Jumping Beans.

Remember them well
cinnamon toothpics

and more old candy here

I used to make those as a teen. Used to chew those toothpicks into splinters, too.

The kids used to make their own and wrap them in tin foil and sell them at school. I was in Jr High then, it was like crack

I don't remember those but I do remember candy cigarettes.

I was in elementary school when everyone would always buy those cinnamon toothpicks. We would always chew on them until they lost flavor or until they were a splintered mess, and spit them out on the school yard.

Never heard of them. What time period were these popular?

I remember them, but they were usually too hot for my taste.

PC

Close Up???

Close Up is my favorite toothpaste but can’t use it as I need sensitive toothpaste or cold drink put me on lockdown.

Heck yeah. 25 cents a piece from the toothpick pusher. Tried to elbow my way into that business, but my cinnamon wasn't spicy enough.

Ha! I remember Close Up, the toothpaste for people that kiss a lot. And the cinnamon toothpick challenge. How many could stick in your mouth for five minutes.

Who remembers toothpowder?

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
Never heard of them. What time period were these popular?

It was early to mid sixties if I remember correctly, I was in 7th or 8th grade.

And in the early 70's when I used to chew them up.

4th grade in "76" I remember it and eating them well

The toothpaste is Crest. It’s one of the ones that comes in a plastic flask-shaped bottle, rather than a tube.

Yes I remember them well, but we used round toothpicks. Sure do miss them. Makes you want to order cinnamon oil from a health store and start the fad all over again.

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Never heard of them. What time period were these popular?

They hit my grade school in SW Idaho 1956.

I remember them well. Still order them on occasion when I get something from Amazon. Remember rock candy too. Used to be a drug store across the street from our grade school and we would go over there and spend our lunch money on candy.