Palenque

Yup heard a blurb on NPR that Waitrose, Britain's rather upscale supermarket it seems, has rolled out cashmere TP - so along cashmere sweaters you can also bring back a few of cashmere TP.

Waitrose claims the new TP is very very soft!

British supermarket chain Waitrose unveils toilet paper with ...
Mar 2, 2010 ... While the Brits have not been immune to the trend of turning bathrooms into throne rooms, the arrival of cashmere T.P. was greeted as ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/.../2010-...shmere_tp.html

asalamy

I heard this on NPR too - I loved the comment that it was an easy way to get your significant other a cheap cashmere scarf!

flanneruk

Amazing, innit?

Open any woman's bathroom cabinet (well technically, the cabinet is for both of us, but look at the way space is allocated and you start realising how things must look to Palestinians), and everything's got essence of teatree or mink's gonad extract added. No-one - except the old bat doing the L'Oreal ads this week claiming the meerkat musk makes you irresistible to randy 18 yos (forgetting EVERYTHING's irresistible to randy 18 yos) - even notices.

But add a few bits of cashmere cabbage (as it's called in the trade: the scraps left over from making scarves which, on account of the Chinese have ruined the market, cost less than woodpulp) and the Seppoes think it's sublime decadence.

Haven't any of you noticed what's happened to cashmere sweater prices lately? At Primark, they're practically free with every pair of socks. The bogrolls are a devilish Chinese plot to drive up demand for the belly wool of all those cashmere goats they can't even give away any more.

Palenque

anyway a far cry from the wax-paper like TP found a few decades ago in public loos - and in campgrounds i had my camping tours stay in - we always had to warn clients to be sure to have their own TP - i mean really they were like wax paper - I remember the Governor of the Canterbury St Martin's Camping and Caravanning Park apologizing to me for his waxy TP in his loos - 'if i put proper stuff in people would just pinch it' - but now apparently he could well afford cashmere TP!

Hooameye

I had to read this thread just to find out what "TP" was, do you have a problem writing toilet paper?

stfc

These new bog rolls don't have any cashmere fibres in them. From the Telegraph: "No cashmere fibres themselves are included in the manufacturing process. Rather, the paper is covered in oil extracted from the hairs of the cashmere goat."

PatrickLondon

>>Rather, the paper is covered in oil extracted from the hairs of the cashmere goat.<<

And, boy, is that goat annoyed about it.

BTW, have you seen that Charmin is now to be called Cushelle? As though that makes all the difference. Cushelle sounds like it ought to be wearing 6" hoop earrings and telling us all it ain't bothered.

Bowsprit

How much does it cost a roll?

Hooameye

"Cushelle sounds like it ought to be wearing 6" hoop earrings and telling us all it ain't bothered."

You do wonder sometimes if these companies do any "background" research to find out if their new brand names actually mean something else or give totally the wrong impression. The one that sticks in my mind and I still hear comments about today is when they changed the name of Jif cleaner to Cif, what were they thinking!

stfc

£2.29 for a pack of four. Don't know how many pence a wipe that is.

Cif, yes. And Marathons became Snickers. How buttock-clenching was that? One needs cashmere loo rolls just thinking about it.

I read somewhere that the Vauxhall Nova was called something else in Spanish-speaking countries due to an unfortunate translation.

Bowsprit

My first car was a Chevy Nova in the U.S. We called it the 'no-go' car.

Surfergirl

30 years ago, the bog roll was like wax paper. They've come a long way. A real long way.

Palenque

I am waiting for flanneruk's report on how soft the cashmere tissue really is.

Dukey

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Kiss My A**"

flanneruk

We're 100% Waitrose Essentials household. Except for bacon, premium brands aren't given houseroom.

Palenque

Tant pis!

PatrickLondon

>.The one that sticks in my mind and I still hear comments about today is when they changed the name of Jif cleaner to Cif, what were they thinking!<<

Ah, that's an interesting one. It is called Cif across the continent, but was called Jif in the UK, all those decades ago, for exactly the reason you're thinking. But apparently the marketing panjandrums decided in their wisdom that the overtone was no longer there in modern British slang, so there would be no problem standardising on the brandname used everywhere else. (The standardisation of brandnames across countries is apparently the reason for "Cushelle" as well, it seems).

Cholmondley_Warner

What does/did Cif mean then?

flanneruk

"What does/did Cif mean then?"

You'd have thought nothing. The urban myth in the kind of Italian ad agencies that thought advertising cleaning products was prestigious (which most major agencies do) was that, being pronounced Chief, it was an Italianisation of - well Chief: a word people had heard in films etc.

We never got the business, so I never found out. More likely it meant: absolutely nothing, but was pronouncable in all Continental languages and fitted on to a narrow bottle.

Hooameye

When they changed the name to Cif the general consensus was "why would you want to name it after syph" (syphilis), I know it's spelt differently but same pronunciation.