# I'm addicted to Listerine Toothpaste

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 29, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-listerine-toothpaste/52312 "2001-01-29T21:59:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-listerine-toothpaste/52312/1 "2001-01-29T21:59:21Z")

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Strictly speaking, that isn’t accurate. I’m addicted to the way my mouth feels after using it.

Listerine itself is addictive. I weaned off of it some months ago, but now, with the toothpaste, I’m like a lab rat pounding on that cocaine bar in my cage when I fire up the Oral-B.

How weird is this? Anyone else wanna confess, to this or other oddball fetishes?

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**Author:** ![vertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@vertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertigo)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-listerine-toothpaste/52312/2 "2001-01-30T00:40:56Z")

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You of course are, strictly speaking, a freak. 😉

I do like that brand of toothpaste myself. I even got disappointed when I went to buy it last month and they were out (bought a Colgate knockoff and it just wasn’t anywhere close to the same). I prefer the gel, not the paste, with the green tint. But the fascination ends with the last spit to the sink. Mouth doesn’t feel any better/cleaner/different than after I use regular tartar control Crest. But I do think that it has a pleasant/funky flavor, and I am totally convinced that because it is ‘Listerine’ it is better at killing off all those nasty bugs that dwell in your mouth.

My weird thing now is that I only use TUMS E-X Sugar Free, Orange Cream flavored antacids. They taste just like those St. Josephs children’s aspirin (you know the ones) that I used to take as a tyke. Bless 'em, they’re good. Makes me almost want to go to bed with an upset stomach…

But back to you…, where was I? Oh, yeah…, you’re a freak.