Lobby Dosser wrote:

: Then there was the British toilet paper of the same era: Super Glossy!

In the current Harper's Magazine, there's a really amusing
series of quoted letters between various peo\ple in the British
health beurocracy, concerning the toilet paper issue. Apparently the
super glossy stuff (which wasn't absorpent) was chosen deliberately.
I always though it was cheapness, but that ain't it.

-- Andy Barss