Design flaw

This is why people need consumer regulation. Bottles have one shape and soaps another

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.

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?

is this the soda you drink while baking food?

Time to pick up some Mr. Yuck stickers.

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.

Would

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!

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.
  
  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 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?
  
  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.
  
  I don't live in a predominantly latine area and we have it in Walmart
- 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
  
  ... oooh I just noticed the floor tiles on the label, under all the food.

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.
- I'm absolutely saving that
  
  Ooh, Lemmy bronze. I'll cherish it forever.

To be fair, it does look tasty as fuck.

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.

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”.
- 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.

- 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
  
  At various stages of expiry.
  
  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"?

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.

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.