Posted on 01/04/2018 11:18:32 AM PST by nickcarraway
Tide Pods contain detergent. For washing your clothes and your sheets. Not for eating. Doesn’t matter how much they look like a snack, or a candy, or an oversize Gushers. You shouldn’t eat them unless you’d like to, well, potentially die. A child might not know better, so you should probably keep them out of reach of little hands — these things have killed before — for safety. (Or just buy some boring, cheaper, non-pod detergent. It works better anyway.) If you, after all of this, are still looking at a Tide Pod and thinking, Maybe just a little bit … you definitely shouldn’t go on Twitter today. Tide Pod–eating, a long-running internet joke, has reached something of a fever pitch this December.
The earliest origins of the Tide Pods–as–food bit date back to an internet forum in 2013, according to Know Your Meme. The topic of said forum, however, was less about Tide Pods as a delicious snack and more about old people and kids accidentally eating them. In the years following, sites like College Humor and the Onion both created content around the idea of edible laundry pods. See here: “Don’t Eat the Laundry Pods” from last March. Communities of people — on Twitter and Reddit — have since become very into talking about eating, or how badly they want to eat, Tide Pods. (I’m assuming that very few to none make good on these conversations, given the whole Tide Pods are poison thing.)
This December, there have been a number of viral tweets about Tide Pod–consumption that seem likely to have been the impetus for the detergent renaissance this week. The most important being a person who tweeted at Gushers on the day after Christmas with something “very important” to tell them. They sent a DM asking if Gushers would consider making a fruit snack shaped like a Tide Pod — which is a great idea if you ask me — so all of the would-be Tide Pod–munchers could satisfy their pod hunger. Gushers blocked the user after receiving the DM.
If anybody knows a gummy company looking for a hot new product, I think we might be onto something here. And again … don’t eat the dang Tide Pods. Though if you do, please have somebody film you and send us the video.
Okay this is like that “helpful” warning printed on the driver’s side sun visor of my car telling me not to remove the T-roof panels while the car is in motion.
Regarding our dishwasher soap, the cleaned items have a slippery substance left on them. You probably haven’t noticed and it’s probably harmless.
But when I dip a knife into our “I can’t believe it’s not butter”, the material slides off. If I first wipe the knife on a napkin or the like, and I mean thoroughly wipe with pressure, the butter sticks ok to the knife.
Guess slippery knife blades are one price we pay for low phosphorous soap, or more exactly, a rinse material that is injected after the washing is over.
You mean these critters?
This article says a lot about New York Magazine’s opinion of their own readership.
People have waaaay too much time on their Frickin’ hands.
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yeah, well at least the old fashioned paste glue had a nice menthol flavor to it....um, not that I would know personally, or anything... oh the hell with it! I ATE PASTE AND I’M NOT ASHAMED!
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Why?
The stupid people will die.
This is a good thing.
Besides pods are now being made by many other companies.
Second, is the punishment for stupidity death?
I love pods but we have a septic system.
No no, please do eat them, the herd needs thinning.
And after all this time. Pods have been out for ages. If people are so stupid as to eat them now they would have a defense in that no one deliberately ate them until some nitwit made a YouTube video encouraging them to do so. Go sue YouTube.
We have had yummy smelling lemon scented cleaner for ages. Somehow those companies have manages to avoid being sued.
Second, is the punishment for stupidity death?
Mother nature is not nice. The punishment for stupidity is often painful slow death.
Ask the kids who ate yew berries.
Might want to get out the Ouija board.
Tide!?!
I wouldn’t even wash my floor with that crap.
Worst detergent ever.
LOL...it’s like the kid in “A Christmas Story” who was a connoisseur of all the different soaps you could get your mouth washed out with!
Heheh, I went into a porta-potty a while back and it was as disgusting as any of them often are, but...it had a really nice cinnamon smell!
I was marveling over this, then remembered that the smell it was covering up was still there underneath it all!
GAAAHHH!
Wouldn’t that make a great buzzfeed video: 7 year olds taste test construction glues.
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So did I. That, or shark eggs.
5 loads a day! horrors!
Oh, it’s not as if I’m scrubbing them on a washboard or anything. The water bill is hugh, though.
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