# toothpicks
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/168734
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [April 14, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/168734 "2003-04-14T21:28:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ewood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ewood)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/168734/1 "2003-04-14T21:28:51Z")
If I recall correctly from my school days, (forestry major) I believe another reason for using white birch in toothpicks is that it tends to not splinter compared to other species.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/168734/2 "2003-04-14T22:33:57Z")
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, **ewood** , glad to have you with us. It’s helpful, when you start a thread, if you provide a link to the Column you are discussing. Helps keep us all on the same page. Yes, it’s obvious now, but in a few days, this column will sink from the Home Page back into the archives and be harder to track.
In this case, the column is ["Are toothpicks made of real wood?’](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_176a.html)