The concept of a mouth freshener is either unique to the sub-continent, South Asia at most, or, I am really ignorant. The mint is the only western substitute that I know of and it comes out of a packet. Within India, we have tens of kinds of stuff that serve as a mouth freshener, some double up as a digestive. Firstly, the paans, the cold meetha paan being a northern novelty, to the best of my limited knowledge. The paans in the east had just…Continue Reading “Is mouth freshener a South Asian concept?”