Toothpaste Company, Get Thee to a Mycologist

Posted on December 16, 2013 by mikethemadbiologist

While I’m sure companies spend a lot of time devising (and divining) brand names, someone really screwed this Swiss toothpaste brand up:

03_S4_candi_pack
(from here)

Candida.

The mind boggles.

This entry was posted in A Fungus Among Us, Teeth. Bookmark the permalink.

3 Responses to Toothpaste Company, Get Thee to a Mycologist

  1. Ned Mantei says:
    December 16, 2013 at 11:59 am

    That’s the toothpaste I use all the time, but somehow never thought much at all about the name until reading your blog today. But it is good toothpaste…

    Ned (in Switzerland)

  3. hipparchia says:
    December 16, 2013 at 5:05 pm

    dictionary.com infom=rms me that candidia is latin for white

Comments are closed.