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Review on ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ Listerine Cool Mint Pocketpaks Breath Strips - Powerful Oral Dissolving Freshener, Kills 99% of Bad Breath Germs, On-the-Go Portability, Refreshing Mint Flavor! (12 Pack) by Mikey Somerville

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Little strips of joy and panache wrapped in incredible corporate silliness

Have my love for these thin little strips no limits but grabbing a dumbass is a huge killer. Let's start with the good: The strips will get that horrible odor out of your mouth almost instantly, they taste so good, and they're so eye-opening, it's a wonder they're not only sold by prescription. I use them for more than just breath control. First, when I get hungry in the early hours of the morning, I pop a couple of these in my mouth instead of reaching for a late-night snack and all temptations go away. Another advantage makes them indispensable: they immediately remove the creative block. An Altoid or two used to be my Icebreaker writing assistant, but this is my new pocket friend. I force a sequence of three or four into my mouth and suddenly I'm in a state of instantaneous flow. The reason I gave this product three stars is because of its incredibly empty packaging. Each plastic box contains 12 packs of 24 tiny thin strips. There is a plastic bubble around each plastic box embedded in the paper card. Outside of each of them is another paper sleeve. Like someone trying to make this product more valuable than it really is. I would give a 1000% mark-up on these little bits of flavor that probably cost the manufacturer more to pack than the product's ingredients. Marketers at predatory opioid drug company Johnson & Johnson, likely driven by even more greed than their usual stratospheric numbers, believe these pathetic streaks are worth their weight in gold. for me - but I think that instead of drug dealer Johnson & Johnson, any honest food manufacturer could copy this idea with enough modifications to avoid copyright disputes, or even improve on it. You could then produce and distribute them for 10% of the price of these fakes and still make a significant profit. J&J, please come to your senses and think about how many landfills you're filling with this useless, incredibly stupid packaging. All of that cardstock, bubble wrap, and printing cost likely accounts for almost the entire cost of making this near-weightless product. Get rid of all that useless paper packaging by putting a stack of 50 strips in an easy-to-open, biodegradable package and reduce the price by 90% and this will be the perfect product.

Pros
  • Pack of 24 Listerine Cool Mint PocketPaks breath strips to effectively kill bad breath germs and keep your breath fresh and clean
Cons
  • Not bad but...