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January 14, 2005
WARNING: may contain tooth traces
Those of you with delicate constitutions, a history of dental problems or a debilitating fear of dentists should probably stop reading now.
My significant other today had the horrendous experience of biting into a Toffee Crisp, to discover that she might be in with a chance of suing Nestlé for billions. As she chewed, a hard shard of what felt like glass seemed to have come along with the standard toffee & crisp. Some cautious chewing later, the picture was less rosy: a piece of her own tooth, calmly and with no pain, had completely detached itself to swim around in her mouth.
Cue much cursing of poor childhood dental hygiene (why didn't I learn to flip my skull open like that man on the Reach ads? Why?!) and a series of terrifying mental images of what the dentist would do once he or she got inside her mouth.
In the end though, it wasn't that bad. After a lot of poking around with primitive metal objects (conducted by a man with a horrified expression, apparently) a series of appointments were scheduled, beginning next week. But some changes still have to be made, diet-wise, which can be neatly summarised as No More Sugar.
So it was funny to come back to her desk, after seeing the dentist, to find the remainder of the toffee crisp carefully sellotaped into its wrapper for when she felt she could safely eat again. This is a girl who likes her chocolate. If I had been the cause of a broken tooth, even inadvertently and without pain, I would never have been let forget it. But if you're chocolate-coated, you can do no wrong.
Posted by Oliver at January 14, 2005 06:13 PM
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