@inquiline wait. Does this one have. . . glitter? Nothing like microplastics inside the macroplastic implement one has just put in their mouth.

@inquiline philosophical question: why are so many flossers shades of green?

@shinealittlelove @SRLevine @inquiline Spearmint flavor is coded green, peppermint flavor is coded blue - I suspect this derives from chewing gum.

(Like sodas: generic cola is coded red because Coke dominated Pepsi for a long time, ginger ale is coded green and gold, lemon-lime is coded mostly green with yellow and/or white, cherry cola/dr pepper are coded dark red... and caffeine free is coded gold and sugar-free is coded white or black. I did my PhD on using histogram-based color recognition to identify sodas.)

@shinealittlelove @SRLevine @inquiline mint is sometimes blue-coded too, though. I think I most often see it as a differentiator between peppermint being blue and spearmint or wintergreen being, well, green.

Or it could be an artifact of how people see blue and green differently and not really questioning others' choices enough to realize that ^^; kind of like the blue-green test that was around for a while, but sadly doesn't seem to be online anymore ):

@shinealittlelove @SRLevine @inquiline here is the mothership: a Safeway shelf. (Why are gum-stimulating brushes traffic yellow?)

@inquiline @SRLevine I trace nineteenth-century supply chains for a living 😊 Those folk left clues lying around everywhere; today’s capitalists and extractors are much sneakier. E-waste: a grave indeed. Also: yuck.

@SRLevine @inquiline throwing into the mix that i've also seen both flossers and mouthwash in shades of blue 🤔

@inquiline @SRLevine some thoughts: literal greenwashing? An appeal to the bathroom-clean-minimalist aesthetic of transparent glass tile on white? Invoking water? The weirdness of a black-on-matte-black Toronto #flosstodon is still with me. Is the os a grave? Or is it #flosstodon you mourn for?

@inquiline I always assumed mouthwash was green to evoke mint (but I'm not a mouthwash user, so this is very much an assumption)