Kolynos. Records 1001 As for anyone saying that the mind of the person who works only produce thoughts related to their work (or to say that I do not concentrate at work as they apparently do), the other day I was working and I came to head marked "Kolynos."
What secret spring hinge activated lifted my head and looked at my screen. Is there still marked "Kolynos", I wondered. Doubt began to eat away at me inside and that is, I'll be honest, I'm not a gourmet as far as choice of toothpaste is concerned. For a long time I'm hooked on one brand and my rite of purchase is limited to get close to the gondola, take two or three boxes of that brand and go to see anything juicy. A good rib-eye, for example.
Well, truth be told, I do not ever seduced Kolynos powerful flavor that has the Kolynos. That's why I do not buy Kolynos. I have not bought a Kolynos in the last 15 of my 30 years. And I feel no more remorse, I will say, eh? And it must be that, today, my brain does not spend half a million neural connections that I dedicate to that mark.
My mother had, kept in the closet of his fourth and mine a few years later, a strange and appealing collection of journals in the 5th and 60 years. Strange because usually you do not often see such printout about 30 or 40 years ago stowed without any apparent logical order. And appealing to that in the absence of blades Huascaran, nothing like a good "Life" from 64 to illustrate your work.
But not only were "Lifes" or Laifer, if you are more comfortable reading about the Kennedy assassination or space travel or how bad the Russians. Brazil also had some English translations that were called "O Cruzeiro" and I only remember a drawing simpaticón whose protagonist was a real bastard who was known by the nickname "The friend of Oz." And, of course, the Billiken. Classic children's literature in Argentina that my brothers and I went back to enjoy even though they were imported for the reading of a - even infants - my mother. Of the Billiken if I have more memories but I parboiled did a head as far as history is concerned. This he did not know where to put, between Francisco Pizarro and Alfonso Ugarte, the Viceroy Liniers, Cornelio Saavedra or Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Years later I realized that the little magazine that blew was from another country and that was why, in his drawings of children in school, everyone had mariconsísimo shorts and a white coat - like the girls - instead of manly negroplomo uniform we used here.
Well, that these magazines had ads Kolynos. Notices would very sixties now at Mons tenderness turned out to be (how to rhyme "Seer"? As with "Kolynos"). I think those ads - and Forties when they came to my eye - were those that prompted the arrival of some Kolynos to my house. That and the few brands that we had before. And is that before, really, had not so much. Now we have special components to toothpaste to smooth the serruchito incisors. Formerly Kolynos, Colgate, Close Up and the red and white stripes did not remember her name.
But what's really remarkable is what happened to Kolynos what about those brands that are so chivalrous, they end up becoming common nouns. Like the Ace, ie, that should be pronounced as it is written: "grabs" and not "eis" as surely as those who wanted it occurred to call it powder detergent. I still remember the old Kolynos. Those that were completely yellow and old tube came in, that of metal. That you could do starting from the bottom roll and that, in both crush and straightening, finishing with your hands from small pieces of exterior paint. Green screw cap having oil and were covered in the mouth with a very slight film that you should drill with the tip that skillfully manufacturers had placed it just inside the cap. A pleasure.
These Kolynos remember me.
Then once came to Peru, my only aunt who lives in the U.S. and toothpastes brought the most peculiar. Aftermarket spray containers other than metal and pasta life loquísimas of blue, green, red and blue stripes. I still remember how I was fascinated by the Crest toothpaste that was not white as Kolynos but it was a turquoise blue and had, in, whitish stuff that gave a space I know not what the concoction that. And also remember an aunt who lent us home for a summer and in whose bathroom I discovered that new novel, the first Kolynos that came in a metal aftermarket spray like everyone else but came in a plastic and equal to that today is common. I remember sneaking into your bathroom and take the aftermarket spray with curiosity, to feel the texture of the new material and the softness of their content, ease of thread at the top and how it was impossible to roll from the queue. All this for the sheer curiosity I created this new toothpaste that came from Brazil, I guessed, because everything was written in Portuguese, my nine years, recognized as being similar to Castilian only with many "year."
course, then also tested how the pasta came under pressure and with that excuse, he emptied the Kolynos to my aunt in the water and sent it all down the drain just to prove that the new packaging also served as a balloon and, to a good blow, vacuum tube might seem full but has nothing inside. So yes, I did it for pure desire to fuck.
Then, when he suddenly looked up and wondered if there was still a mark Kolynos, I remembered all these things and I felt blessed beloved brand. Moreover, I concluded that it would be a real pain if the mark no longer exists. I started to remember and, gosh, did not remember seeing a long Kolynos. "I told them and how to buy my toothpaste? Well, that is precisely why he could not remember if it sold or not Kolynos. Almost convinced me that during all this time I did things automatically ceased to exist on Kolynos and that life as I knew he lost part of its charm.
Then I decided to google and I calmed down a little drama. Kolynos still exists, as does the Wikipedia page in Portuguese, only that it is no longer an independent company because the brand was bought by Colgate for several years. It tasted like pork rinds because imagine tallow to buy Colgate Kolynos is like thinking that the purchase Flamengo Fluminense. I mean, there are things in the world to compete, then. Colgate mind thinking mother who had bought the brand to make it disappear but on the page of Colgate-Palmolive said they were selling me Kolynos which also still has its charm because while Colgate is for everyone, there is only one Kolynos. At least in Brazil.
Product Search also reminded that the mark that it is no longer sold but it had red and white streaks called "Signal". For the trivia.
My nostalgia, however, is not so easily consoled and gave me the can so that "what is the point that sold in Brazil if I do not live in Brazil." So, if they were not selling in Peru, definitely life as I knew he had lost part of its charm.
But the internet, although some say otherwise, do not have all the answers and could not know whether or not selling Kolynos still in Peru.
During lunch time I crossed the road and walked to Plaza Vea. Indeed, between Dento and Colgate were the Kolynos. Life as I knew her, had not lost part of its charm.
Two days later I go to Plaza Vea to buy a toothpaste to keep in the office. In my house I have yet providing the brand I use but the aftermarket spray in her office was over and needed another. So I got to the gondola but I stopped, I thought, and with smile on his face, bought a Kolynos. Kolynos big, yet.
After lunch, I started my way back to the office with the expectation of my teeth and to feel the fresh taste of toothpaste. I imagined feeling the softness of the pasta extending between my teeth and generating foam necessary. He remembered the pasta, immaculately white, but with a strong consistency, almost solid, which is accommodated in the brush properly and could make that pig tail is made when you stop pressing the tube and pick it up to cover it.
already in the bathroom, brush premiering also proceeded to open the yellow box, pulled out just like the plastic pipe that emptied my aunt 21 years ago, I uncovered and pressed. Came a whitish paste that are so soft and inconsistent, seemed rather these soaps, foams that are fashionable in restaurants. Of view was not Kolynos lifetime. Life, just as I knew, had lost little something of its charm.
But not everything, something stays the same. This pasta is still having that nasty taste Kolynos. It was there that his senses and remembered that, truth be told, I do not seduce the powerful flavor that has the Kolynos Kolynos. That must be why I do not buy Kolynos. Nostalgia is not always a good counselor. I mean, so to speak.
