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Good god that is dumb
Planet Earth is brimming with millions of different objects. But in this young year, there is perhaps no single item that has moved the dangerous desires of the human spirit as much as the brightly hued laundry detergent capsules known as Tide Pods.
One of several similar products on the market, Tide Pods are described by their maker as “small but powerful” alternatives to traditional laundry detergent that qualify as much “more than just a liquid in a pouch.” These pods, Tide seems to promise, can revolutionize the way we wash life’s indignities out of our clothes.
Squishy little soap nuggets, I guess, are someone’s vision of the future of doing laundry. Each small pouch contains brightly colored liquid, and if you take a sniff, you’ll observe notes of a floral, chemical-scented bubble bath. Comparisons to pieces of candy abound.
Tide Pods are also poisonous to the human body — filled, as they are, with concentrated laundry detergent — and thus are not intended for consumption.
Tide’s reliance on the powers of poison to help us enhance the brightness of our clothing isn’t surprising or abnormal. It should go without saying that laundry soap isn’t meant to be eaten, including Tide Pods. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped many people from wanting to bite into one.
Indeed, the company’s website offers an extensive, multi-step guide to safeguarding children against the dangers of eating Tide Pods — according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there were 10,500 cases involving kids under the age of 5 being exposed to laundry detergent packets in 2017. Further, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, two children and six adults died from consuming laundry pods between 2012, when they first hit the market, and 2017.
And it’s in the pods’ strange combination of convenience, candy-like appearance, and potential to kill you that the first full-fledged internet meme of 2018 was born.
Admit it: don’t you kind of want to know what a Tide Pod tastes like?
Over the past two weeks, creative citizens across the internet have trolled the idea of eating Tide Pods into comedic existence. People have imagined Gordon Ramsay praising their deliciousness, invented apocalyptic fantasy scenarios where fights break out in supermarkets over the last bag of pods on the shelf, and even tried baking Tide Pods onto a frozen pizza:
Good god that is dumb
Planet Earth is brimming with millions of different objects. But in this young year, there is perhaps no single item that has moved the dangerous desires of the human spirit as much as the brightly hued laundry detergent capsules known as Tide Pods.
One of several similar products on the market, Tide Pods are described by their maker as “small but powerful” alternatives to traditional laundry detergent that qualify as much “more than just a liquid in a pouch.” These pods, Tide seems to promise, can revolutionize the way we wash life’s indignities out of our clothes.
Squishy little soap nuggets, I guess, are someone’s vision of the future of doing laundry. Each small pouch contains brightly colored liquid, and if you take a sniff, you’ll observe notes of a floral, chemical-scented bubble bath. Comparisons to pieces of candy abound.
Tide Pods are also poisonous to the human body — filled, as they are, with concentrated laundry detergent — and thus are not intended for consumption.
Tide’s reliance on the powers of poison to help us enhance the brightness of our clothing isn’t surprising or abnormal. It should go without saying that laundry soap isn’t meant to be eaten, including Tide Pods. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped many people from wanting to bite into one.
Indeed, the company’s website offers an extensive, multi-step guide to safeguarding children against the dangers of eating Tide Pods — according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there were 10,500 cases involving kids under the age of 5 being exposed to laundry detergent packets in 2017. Further, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, two children and six adults died from consuming laundry pods between 2012, when they first hit the market, and 2017.
And it’s in the pods’ strange combination of convenience, candy-like appearance, and potential to kill you that the first full-fledged internet meme of 2018 was born.
Admit it: don’t you kind of want to know what a Tide Pod tastes like?
Over the past two weeks, creative citizens across the internet have trolled the idea of eating Tide Pods into comedic existence. People have imagined Gordon Ramsay praising their deliciousness, invented apocalyptic fantasy scenarios where fights break out in supermarkets over the last bag of pods on the shelf, and even tried baking Tide Pods onto a frozen pizza:
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