# Toothpicks

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/511831
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [September 28, 2009, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/511831 "2009-09-28T09:17:32Z")
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### Author: ![Cranny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@Cranny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranny)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2009, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothpicks/511831/1 "2009-09-28T09:17:32Z")

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I seem to remember reading as a child that another tree, not birch, was used for toothpicks until (I think) the early part of the Twentieth Century when the tree was almost wiped out. Anyone know more about this?