• JulieLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      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

      • JulieLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 days ago

        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.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          Are you twelve or schizphrenic? Because whatever you has which makes you think you’re being funny is lying to you.

          You can’t eat a tablespoon of salt. You’re not capable of doing that. End of story.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

          • the_trash_man@lemmy.world
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            9 days ago

            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.

          • Lemming6969@lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            In almost all cases it just adjusts pH, except when it’s still a powder, then it’s an abrasive, and any time you get it bubbling, it’s reducing its value to zero by turning into water and Co2.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      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.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          8 days ago

          I can’t imagine drinking a half gallon of milk before it starts to go bad. Three full gallons is madness to me

          • Dravin@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            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.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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”.

    • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      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.

    • nbailey@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 days ago

      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…

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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.

      • Synapse@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        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.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 days ago

          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!

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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?

    • desktop_user [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      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.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      You can still have whatever insane labels you want.

      Why not have stuff just clearly labeled? “floor cleaner” on this one.