Tofurky Pardoned By NFC President For National Flossing Day

NFC Newswire

Washington, DC: Nov. 26, 2015 -

In an annual tradition comparable to the presentation of deer to the Governor of VA for Thanksgiving, two native residents of Brooklyn, NY today presented the President of the National Flossing Council (NFC) with a fresh Tofurky to mark National Flossing Day.

The Brooklynites, dressed in their traditional hipster garb, recounted their hunt for the rare critter, quietly stalking it in the frozen food section of Whole Foods, until they spied their prey. After their purchase, the Tofurky was placed in a reusable bag for transport to NFC headquarters.

NFC President, Dr. Armand Lione, presented the hipsters with commemorative packets of dental floss before pardoning the Tofurky and returning it to its native habitat, a refrigerator.

To close the event, the hipsters & Dr. Lione toasted the Tofurky ceremony by sharing a 40 oz bottle of Pabst, the beer that has been specifically paired with Tofurky by Brooklyn beer artisans.

True Gentleman's Jerky Includes Floss.

This isn't really news, because the guys at True Gentleman's Jerky have been saying they include a packet of floss in every bag ever since they did their Kickstarter campaign in 2013.



But to mix a bad metaphor, beef  jerky is not my cup of tea. After the zombie apocalypse, I might start eating beef jerky. Regular beef is so good!

For the record, the NFC has been promoting the idea of including floss in snack foods since we introduced the Flossing Policy Initiative in 2009.

"Since there is general agreement among dental health authorities that between-meal snacks are a major source of cavity-promoting foods in our daily life, and individually packed snack foods are an ever-growing source of these foods, the National Flossing Council is calling on manufacturers of snack foods and candies to investigate the practicality of packaging their products with a string imbedded in the package. This string could be located to help open some snack foods, and, when the snack is done, it could serve as floss to clean the consumer’s teeth of snack residues."

Times change fast - few, if any, single unit floss packs were available until recently.

Great work, Gentlemen! Please let me know if you do something creative with a fruit jerky.

Steve Harvey Shows What You Can Do With Floss!

Jan. 6, 2015

Handy Ma’am Janell Inez shows Steve Harvey some surprising uses for dental floss!

Happy 2015 from the folks at the National Flossing Council!

Evidence that Swedes Love Floss!

Google has records on what countries are searching what.
Dental Floss is high up in the Swedish searches.
Who could blame them?

Swedes Love Floss Article
http://www.thelocal.se/20141216/swedes-ask-google-about-voting-floss-and-selfies

Phone Hack Floss Ad

This phone hack has been going around the web, so we used it in our latest floss ad.

Oldest Printed Reference to Dental Floss (1820)

Here's a picture of a wild monkey in Thailand flossing.  There are a lot of modern pictures and video of primates flossing and there are a lot of ancient human skulls with grooves between their teeth that suggest people have been flossing for a long time (more on that in a future post).

Dental historians, such as Drs Matthew Sanoudos and Arden Christen of  Indiana University, have detailed the writings of Levi Spear Parmly, who suggested the use of waxed silk to clean between teeth in the early 1800s (1). Parmly's writings seem to be the oldest printed references to dental floss.

You can read the 3 lectures Parmly gave in New York City in 1820 with this online link (and save the $1.50 (now $20) it would have cost you for admission).

Parmly didn't go into the details of flossing in the lectures.  Here's the key page that describes floss from the end of the third lecture.

References

1. Sanoudos M, Christen AG. Levi Spear Parmly: the apostle of dental hygiene. J Hist Dent. 1999 Mar;47(1):3-6.

Dental Floss Guitar Strings

With the support of a company that makes rings to hold floss (so you don't hunt your fingers wrapped in floss), Ewan Dobson figured out how to twist dental floss into usable guitar strings.
He plays them for 3min 16 sec and could probably play them even longer.

Here's the video link:
Ewan Dobson playing a dental floss guitar

Score another use for dental floss!

Shelli and the Flossies Bergere Grand Prize!

Here's the Winner of the Flossies Bergere Video Contest, Shelli Saraga, with her Grand Prize - Flossing Barbie Atop the Eiffel Tower!
Congratulations Shelli!
In case you haven't seen her excellent video - check it out!

Saudi Airlines is Floss Friendly!

A tip of the NFC hat to Saudi Airlines!

Our Mideast floss correspondent, Rochelle D of Washington, DC (who last spotted a tube of "Crust Toothpaste."(see older blog entry) when she was in Jordan), has brought back an individual floss packet, which she reports is included with each meal on Saudi Airlines.

 and here's how you can write "dental floss" in arabic.