Well, I’ll admit it. I like toothpicks by golly. For a lot of different reasons, most of which don’t really have to do with picking your teeth. They come in handy all over the place. Propping eyelids open, and such. The best way I’ve ever used a toothpick was back in 1984, when I needed to break into my dorm room. I lit the thing up, held it under the smoke alarm, and within minutes, the entire dormitory emptied. I got back into my room that way. Some folks might argue that it would have been easier to just knock on the door, and wake my roommate up in the conventional manner. But I say, nah, nadda, nope, no way. The toothpick saved the day.

Hours of fun for the entire family.

As a side note: Charles Forster invented in the toothpick. In the mid 1800s. While working for his uncle’s import/export business in Brazil, he noticed that the natives had beautiful teeth, which he attributed to their use of handcrafted toothpicks. He decided they needed to be mass produced in the U.S. And there you have it.