Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back
While the toilet paper shortages that hit the United States during pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 ultimately eased up, they’ve had a lasting impact on one industry: the bidet business.
“The industry here in the U.S. just blew up. You couldn’t get a bidet if you wanted to,” says James Lin, founder of BidetKing.com, an online marketplace for all varieties of the bathroom appliance. “We all sold out. … There was a huge scramble to get more.”
All these comments are amusing for me as an asian
On a trip to a very rural part of South East Asia once the “bidet” was a garden hose and you had to sort it out yourself.
I’m super confused as a Spaniard because we have actual bidets here, an appliance that’s separate from the toilet, where you can also clean you feet and stuff. It’s so hard to guess if people are referring to that bidet or the toilet add-on bidets.
The bidet as a reference: https://www.wikihow.com/images_en/thumb/2/28/Use-a-Bidet-Step-2-Version-3.jpg/v4-460px-Use-a-Bidet-Step-2-Version-3.jpg.webp