Design flaw

If not drink, why drink shaped?

(seriously, what even is it?)

floor soap
- "baking soda"
  I'm even more confused now
- ... oooh I just noticed the floor tiles on the label, under all the food.
Ngl but this is my first time seeing baking soda in liquid form. Maybe I need to touch some grass.
- Or maybe you just don't come from the US? It is not a thing where I live at all.
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

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
- 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.
- Your point is?
- Do you not think we have fabuloso on the east coast or?
- 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.

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.

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
- 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?
- It's both unecological and uneconomical, for the sole benefit of not having to mix powder with tap water.

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!
- Ever since NaHCO3 + H2O <=> Na(+) + HCO3(-) + H2O

Lol that shit’s straight up in a juice bottle what the fuck.
Holy shit is that three gallons of milk?
- Imagine three gallons of milk. Heck, imagine four
- At various stages of expiry.
- One whole milk,, one chocolate, one egg nog
- Well you see there are three types of milk and you never know which one you'll need.

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 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?

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.

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.

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.

I fully understand the exchange students' confusion. There's nothing on the label that says or indicates it's a cleaner, and that's a plausible beverage container design.

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

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.
A sugar cookie that's been to college. Should be chewy and cinnamon flavored.

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"?

Oh that is, I also thought that was a drink, what the fuck?

is this the soda you drink while baking food?

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.

Time to pick up some Mr. Yuck stickers.

Which came first baking soda or soda soda?

Baking soda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(powder)

Would.

Would

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.

There is nothing remotely unhealthy about eating things meant for consumption.
Alright. A as table salt is very much meant for consumption and present in pretty much every food there is, you wouldn't mind backing up your statement by showing me how you eat a few large spoonfuls, since there's "nothing remotely unhealthy" about it, right?
I don't believe anyone that stupid could even find themselves to Lemmy so obvious ragebait is obvious ragebait, I just wish they'd be even a little better
- I not only eat salt but I even bathe in it. I have recently bought "bathing salts". It is a special salt that not only can be added to meals but also it has second purpose as a relaxing bath additive.
  Haters are going to hate me about the baking soda but I am fine and I felt zero negative effects. I don't know what's the fuss about eating a little extra of something that was already in your dessert anyway.
  My brother says it is actually good for you and replenishes soda in your blood.
Fabulous isn't a drink. It's a multi-purpose cleaner that you absolutely should not drink.

...... That happened.

Nothing Ever Happens.