It depends... one side was shiny, it would not dry or absorb at all... the other side was like sandpaper. Even though it says 400 sheets on the wrapping, it was not perforated, meaning one could get a piece as long as one wanted! Just be careful not to have any creases or folds, it would really hurt. Legend has it that a famous criminal, serving a life sentence in Spain, wrote his autobiography on Elephant toilet tissue because of its durability!
That narrow brown Bulgarian toilet paper was perforated but tore everywhere else but the perforations. And it was rarely available. Kinda like the Venezuelan thing. The socialism offers equal misery to the peons regardless of the country or continent.