Black guy toothpaste
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008China is a funny place. Even (or especially) the things that I like are funny.
It was my birthday last week. The Monkey Queen and her unpredictable sense of humour bought me a tube of Darlie, the black guy toothpaste. It says right on the tube, “黑人牙膏”, black man toothpaste. It is a whitening toothpaste. The idea is that black people have very white teeth, so you, a Chinese person, can have white teeth too.
Far be it from me to comment on the cleanliness of Chinese teeth, but I really wonder if Chinese people think black people’s teeth are whiter, or if they realise that colours are colours in as much as they are placed next to other colours, giving a black man’s teeth an equal chance of being white as a Chinese man’s. I also wonder if this, or any other whitening toothpaste, will actually make my teeth whiter. But it tastes good, so let’s give it a try!
