Post by max23 on Apr 25, 2019 8:38:47 GMT -5
I was doing some tidying up at home recently and found an article I had clipped out of the local newspaper. It's written by a young female Aussie journalist who had just moved to the United States. Here's the on-topic bits:
"The next aisle [in the pharmacy] boasted the usual array of 'feminine hygiene products' – you know, the things the TV ads suggest you need if you're planning to go to the beach in a white bathing suit to dance around with your friends while draped in seaweed.
These are basically the same as in Australia, except almost all come encased in what looks like small cardboard rocket launchers.
Of course, I've come across the 'applicator' before but most of my Australian friends consider them a sort of quaint throwback to another time, a bit like gloves and girdles.
Not so in the US. In many pharmacies here, you get your 'feminine hygiene products' with applicators, or not at all. Every pack contains enough cardboard and paper to account for a small forest somewhere in the Amazon."
The article was published in 1999(!), applicators are now plastic rather than cardboard, and I wonder if non-applicator tampons are now more available in the US?
"The next aisle [in the pharmacy] boasted the usual array of 'feminine hygiene products' – you know, the things the TV ads suggest you need if you're planning to go to the beach in a white bathing suit to dance around with your friends while draped in seaweed.
These are basically the same as in Australia, except almost all come encased in what looks like small cardboard rocket launchers.
Of course, I've come across the 'applicator' before but most of my Australian friends consider them a sort of quaint throwback to another time, a bit like gloves and girdles.
Not so in the US. In many pharmacies here, you get your 'feminine hygiene products' with applicators, or not at all. Every pack contains enough cardboard and paper to account for a small forest somewhere in the Amazon."
The article was published in 1999(!), applicators are now plastic rather than cardboard, and I wonder if non-applicator tampons are now more available in the US?
