is this the soda you drink while baking food?
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”.
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
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.
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A few years ago, we receive an email at work to inform us someone has died after drinking from an unlabeled plastic bottle that was filled with toxic chemicals.
Wow. What was it? Why did they drink it?
We attempted to reach out for comment, but they were dead.
I don’t remember, I don’t think they gave more information. I just know that the chemical should not have been in such bottle and it should not have been placed there. Maybe the victim just thought it was water.
I learned my lesson not to drink from strange bottles long ago. Thankfully it was because me and all my underage friends (hol up this was back when I was underage too! Haha) used to hide our vodka in water bottles, and on more than one occasion someone (once or twice me) would pick one up and take a huge swig mistaking it for water. Thankfully nobody died from that, but it felt like you were going to at the time!
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.
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.
Be happy DOGE only let them buy two bullets?
I’m absolutely saving that
I did so yesterday.
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?
Ever since NaHCO3 + H2O <=> Na(+) + HCO3(-) + H2O
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!
Bottled water lengths
Not gonna lie, from the thumbnail I thought it was a fruity drink too…
Even when looking at the picture, I still don’t know what it is. I’m assuming soap based on the comments, but it’s not obvious at all.
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.
One whole milk, one chocolate, one egg nog
Imagine three gallons of milk. Heck, imagine four
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
I can’t imagine drinking a half gallon of milk before it starts to go bad. Three full gallons is madness to me
Growing up my family would easily drink a gallon of milk or more per day between breakfast cereal and consumption with dinner. If my Mom made cookies, a cake, brownies, or some other traditionally paired with milk treat or something that itself used a lot of milk (such as say pudding) that day we could easily consume two gallons in a single day. So, if you have a large family (growing up mine maxed out at two adults and seven kids) or a smaller family that are heavy milk drinkers you could easily knock out three gallons before they spoil particularly if you start including things like being big fans of pudding, custard, mac and cheese, french toast, yogurt, milk gravy and other milk using recipes.
Now if it was a single person that is a lot of milk, I think I could probably power through three gallons of milk before it expired but it’d be deliberate high usage on my part and certain not “this is the amount of milk I want to consume” levels.
At various stages of expiry.
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?
It does, its just in tiny letters that got jpg’d out of existence. On the bottom right, it says “Citrus and Fruits multi-purpose cleaner”.
It is legally labelled, our labelling laws just suck.
I can’t even read it 😂
This is why people need consumer regulation. Bottles have one shape and soaps another
Would
I’ve actually seen this shit stocked in the juice aisle at a few places.
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
Most people in the world don’t
Do you not think we have fabuloso on the east coast or?
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.
Right off a cliff at the end there
I know it will come as a surprise to you, but by far the majority of people on the internet does not come from there. They don’t even come from the United States at all, western or not.
To be fair, it does look tasty as fuck.
… That happened.
Nothing Ever Happens.
