Filed under: Life — at 2:50 pm by jim

Yesterday I received something interesting in the mail:

A promotional packet of Gas-X Thin Strips.  No, this wasn’t a message from one of my friends… six months ago someone sent me a link to a Gas-X web site where you could register to receive a couple of the strips to try.  I filled out my information, submitted it, and then completely forgot about it.  Well, the strips finally arrived.

Just in time too… yesterday for lunch I had a bacon cheeseburger with some tater tots.  Then for dinner I had some hot wings and fries, washed down with a pitcher of beer.  That’s the sort of meal that a man should eat while watching the MLB All-Star game.

However, it’s also the sort of meal that’s going to give a man gas.  So at midnight, I broke open the package.

Two strips.  I opened one of the strip packages, and the actual Gas-X strip looks just like one of those Listerine breath strips, except with a “GX” on it:

So I took it… the peppermint flavor is actually pretty subtle when compared to a breath strip.  It definitely wasn’t enough to kill my bar-food breath.  I’m guessing that they added the peppermint in order to mask the flavor of whatever medicine they put in it.

Anyway, the thing definitely worked.  By the time that I went to sleep at 1:00am, I was feeling fine.  I’m not sure if these are available in stores yet, but they’ll definitely be a worthwhile investment.