When you go to a restaurant for dinner, everyone has a small square towel on the table. What's his name and what does he mainly do?

When eating in a restaurant, everyone on the table has a small piece of cloth called a napkin to wipe their mouths.

Napkins are special cleaning towels for banquets. It is said that in Britain in 15 and 16 centuries, because there was no razor, men all wore beards. In the absence of knives and forks at that time, it was easy to get greasy beard when grabbing meat, so I picked up my skirt and wiped it on my mouth.

So the housewife hangs a cloth towel around the man's neck, which is a statement of the origin of napkin. Because this large napkin is too heavy to use, a tailor in London, England, came up with a new idea to cut the napkin into small squares, which is quite convenient to use, thus gradually forming the napkin used for banquets now.

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When eating in a restaurant, many people will find that the napkin handed over by the waiter looks very white and clean, but it will break as soon as it is pulled, and it will go straight to Mao Mao.

After wiping your mouth, use a little spit or tea, and the paper towel will melt, and it will be a paste when wiped. Many consumers buy napkins, the first thing they look at is the outer packaging. Most people think white paper is good when they look at it, but thick when they feel it, because white paper looks clean and thick paper is strong. As for what raw materials napkins are made of, they rarely ask.

Judging from the anti-counterfeiting situation of relevant law enforcement departments, some "shoddy" paper processing plants are like waste collection stations: waste books, waste paper and old newspapers pile up like mountains, and many papers are moldy and black.

The paper winder and cutting machine are both equipment in the workshop; There is no separation between the roll paper processing point and the wrapping point. According to insiders, although these papers are moldy and black, as long as they are well bleached, moldy black paper can also become white "napkins" and "toilet paper".

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