I have drank such an appetizer and I must say I do not understand what the fuss is all about. It is literally the thing you add to cake - "BAKING soda". You eat the cake and so you eat the baking soda that was added to it to make it BAKE. There is nothing remotely unhealthy about eating things meant for consumption.
...... That happened.
If not drink, why drink shaped?
(seriously, what even is it?)
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.
... oooh I just noticed the floor tiles on the label, under all the food.
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.
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”.
Yeah that “ice cream” is a bit different from this fabuloso situation.
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.
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
never mind that, why would you have baking soda in bottles????
It's a tiny package of white powder. What is this insanity?
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?
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.
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
At various stages of expiry.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have a friend who used to clean with this and it smells horrible
I've actually seen this shit stocked in the juice aisle at a few places.
