Time to pick up some Mr. Yuck stickers.
To me it seriously looks absolutely like fruit juice that has baking soda in it for some reason I’m not aware of - maybe health benefits? And if it didn’t mention baking soda I would totally expect it to be fruit juice. But apparently it’s a household cleaner, and there’s also a watermelon version. WTF is wrong with the people who make this shit?
What the fuck is a snickerdoodle
Never had one? It’s a somewhat common cookie variety that’s similar to a sugar cookie and has a cinnamon sugar topping.
No, is it an American thing? Sounds nice though.
It’s covered in sugar and made with a bunch of sugar. Of course it’s American!
Anyway, here’s a decent recipe if anyone wants to know what they look like or wants to make them.
They are my favorite cookie when warm, and like my 6th favorite cookie cold…
Would
never mind that, why would you have baking soda in bottles???
It’s a tiny package of white powder. What is this insanity?
It’s a cleaning product with baking soda in it, not actual baking soda for cooking
It’s floor cleaner with baking soda added. Not difficult to figure out.
(Edit: And they say Americans are stupid… I mean just read the label and look at the shape of the bottle. You disappoint me, Lemmy.)
It’s both unecological and uneconomical, for the sole benefit of not having to mix powder with tap water.
Fabuloso is a cleaning product.
It isn’t just tap water.
It’s a cleaning product which also has baking soda added to it, it’s a marketing gimmick but adding baking soda to a prepackaged cleaning product isn’t exactly crazy.
I thought baking soda was potentially useful when you made a paste with it, not when you added a tea spoon to a cubic metre of liquid.
It’s great when used as an abrasive but it has odor fighting capabilities without being a paste.
Oh, ok. Good to know.
Throw some in your laundry and it will help remove stank too.
ESPECIALLY if you accidentally forget to dry your clothes and then they get that “been sitting in the washing machine too long” funk that doesn’t like to come out in a single re-wash …
ask me how I know
Well, in my defense, i can’t read anything on that picture that tells me it’s supposed to be floor cleaner.
Also: Snickerdoodle? Le Fuque?I’m with you Everything about this packaging screams “DRINK ME!”
Down the rabbit hole we go where it stops no one knows! (Probably getting a stomach pump though)
I’m Canadian and English is my first language. If I didn’t see that product in a cleaning products isle at the store, I would be very confused because it looks like a drink and while baking soda is something to clean with, it is also something to bake with. It should at very least have the words cleaner or detergent in equally large lettering on the front label.
Since when is baking soda a liquid?
I mean, that was my first question when I saw the product.
First it’s liquid dish soap, then it’s liquid laundry detergent, now liquid baking soda?! What lengths the American trucking industry will go to get customers to pay to haul water across the fucking country!
This reminds me of an old and probably somewhat racist joke, involving a person from [insert low income country here] moving to America and marveling at an American supermarket. Food is so easy to get in America, not like in the old country, and they go so far as to put pictures – in color – on the cans and jars showing you what’s inside so you don’t even have to be able to read the language.
This can has a picture of green beans on it and inside are green beans.
This can has a picture of a bowl of soup on it and inside is that very soup.
This box has a picture of a plate of cookies on it, and inside is a plastic tray with three perfect rows of those exact cookies.
This can has a picture of a baby on it and –
That person went straight back to the airport and booked a one way flight back to the old country at that very moment. All those things people in the old country told them about Americans were true.
Ooh, Lemmy bronze. I’ll cherish it forever.
I don’t know this brand and ngl if I saw that on a kitchen table there is a pretty good chance I’d drink it too. That is downright irresponsible label design.
Say you don’t live in the western United States without saying it lol
Your point is?
Being one of those ppl who think the internet is made of USA citizen
Do you not think we have fabuloso on the east coast or?
Most people in the world don’t
Like and share if you arent a twice-divorced 55 year old orthodontist with a big heart, no attention span, four kids: two humans, two dogs, and a serious addiction to wakeboarding and crystal meth.
If not drink, why drink shaped?
(seriously, what even is it?)
Fabuloso is the best for floors. Smells so good too - good enough that you want to drink it.
If you go to any grocery store in predominately Latine area, it’s pretty common. Lots of old ladies swear by it.
Ngl but this is my first time seeing baking soda in liquid form. Maybe I need to touch some grass.
floor soap
“baking soda”
I’m even more confused now
It said with baking soda. Baking soda can do a lot for cleaning.
Its just funny and a bit concerning that nowhere on the label does it explicitly say that it’s a cleaning product. I wonder if there is a version without baking soda, that would be even more confusing.
Yeah but it does have usage directions on the back.
In almost all cases it just adjusts pH, except when it’s still a powder, then it’s an abrasive, and any time you get it bubbling, it’s reducing its value to zero by turning into water and Co2.
… oooh I just noticed the floor tiles on the label, under all the food.
Even down here where Fabulosa is common, I occasionally mistake it for juice. I guess people are mortally terrified of “communist conformity” and need the soothing market comforts of 80 flavors of everything all from the same one company, but I would truly love if most products were regulated to come in standardized containers.
Imagine the benefits. You can still have whatever insane labels you want. But now all bottles are instantly identifiable by shape or silhouette. Tall, squarish, and easily pourable, must be juice. Short, round, with embedded poison symbols? Not juice!
All bottles of a type could be easily sorted, cleaned, and reused. No worries about plastic cross contamination.
Each kind of bottle is engineered by a materials science task force to be the right kind and amount of plastic to make this work long term for each purpose.
Because gov. subsidies will help manufacture the standardized bottle and everyone can use them, costs actually go down across industries. The recycling sector could also stand to grow by increased need for logistics and management of standardized waste, which becomes another cheap stream of materials for packagers.
Kids, foreign visitors, the aged or infirm, the inebriated, and others all benefit from faster, easier identification of the kind of material they are dealing with. Again, “Is this food?” is one of life’s fundamental questions and what is “society” doing for anyone if it’s not at least making that question easier and more reliable to answer?
You can still have whatever insane labels you want.
Why not have stuff just clearly labeled? “floor cleaner” on this one.
if containers were standardized it would irreperably harm the gag product industry. like ketchup bottles that look like soap bottles, pine sol floor cleaner, hotsauce in yellow mustard shaped containers, soda in champagne bottles, tin can of lead, gallon bottles of soy sauce.
To be fair, it does look tasty as fuck.
Packaging is definitely cultural as anyone who’s spent any significant time in a different culture knows.
It even misleads within your own culture, like how 80% of the “Ice Cream” packaged in ice cream cartons is actually “Frozen Dairy Dessert”.
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Japan has some pretty strict laws on labeling, the real fruit picture coupled with the word soda would definitely make them think this is a high quality fizzy fruit drink.
Yeah that “ice cream” is a bit different from this fabuloso situation.
I once found myself in the rat poison isle of a Lawson in Tokyo a couple years ago thinking they were all tasty snacks. Wasn’t until I noticed the tiny little icon in the corner I figured out it wasn’t junk food I was looking at. Packaging design is very cultural, and being less than fluent in a foreign place can have some wild outcomes if you’re not careful…
You’ve got to share some photos.
This was a different store (didn’t happen to take a pic of the exact rat poison in question), but similar vibe: https://imgur.com/a/hMitwfd
Also including this since it’s just the weirdest mouse trap packaging I’ve ever seen: https://imgur.com/a/xBJZw5p
It’s honestly a miracle I was there for nine days and didn’t get myself poisoned even once
Jesus Christ, and yeah, those look delicious
Lol that shit’s straight up in a juice bottle what the fuck.
Holy shit is that three gallons of milk?
Well you see there are three types of milk and you never know which one you’ll need.
At various stages of expiry.
Imagine three gallons of milk. Heck, imagine four
I can’t imagine drinking a half gallon of milk before it starts to go bad. Three full gallons is madness to me
how much milk you need to drink per day for it not to spoil too soon?
It’s ok for the average American family of two adults and 16 kids
Unpossible
One whole milk, one chocolate, one egg nog
I still am confused why it is called soda.
Bicarbonate of sodium is called ‘baking soda’. Soft drinks are called ‘soda’ because the acid/baking soda reaction was used before they figured out CO2 injection. This floor cleaner is also made with baking soda, therefore, confusion.
Why the fuck doesn’t it say “floor cleaner”?
because why should they limit it to just floor usage?
Whatever, man. Surface cleaner. That’s not the point, is it?
Several years ago at a restaurant in Utah someone mixed a packet of cleaning chemicals instead of lemonade powder because they looked identical. An old lady drank it and died.
