#tide pod consumption

[zippers]

so i have the cilantro soap gene, but grew up in TX so just always assumed mexican food was supposed to taste soapy. knowing that i have the cilantro soap gene makes sense for mexican food with cilantro but mexican candy also tends to be very soapy as well? so i wonder if there is any correlation there. like those who have the gene and like the taste like that flavor in candy. or maybe there is just cilantro in this candy that I'm eating haha!

[divus-crewel-nrc]

I feel like I'm coming down with a cold...

[aalt-ctrl-del]

They saw a market in the Tide Pod challenge and really delivered

High respect for the japanese / south-east asian urge to reinvent every food into some kind of chewy, squishy, popping or soft jelly form.

[eating-the-inedible]

ROUND ONE: Aquarium gravel vs. Tide pods

Propaganda:

Aquarium gravel:

Looks very good to eat. Like fruity pebbles.

Forbidden cronch. You know how goldfish go bloub bloub and put the gravel in their mouth and then spit it out? That's what I want in my life. A mouthful of wet, round, fishy gravel. I ate fish food (those little round things not the pallets) from time to time, but I can only dream of eating the fish's gravel.. unless

🐟🐠🐡🦈🎏🎣

(Clears throat and prepares for speech) We’ve all seen it. You’re in a pet supply store, or at a friend’s shop, or at some restaurant or doctor’s office. You look around aimlessly, wandering bored and without meaning… and there it is. A fish tank.  Yes, the fish is cute. Yes, the tiny treasure chest and little boat are cool. Yes, there are fun bubbles. But that isn’t what catches your eye. There, at the bottom of the fish tank, is gravel. Maybe it’s just one color. Maybe it’s just grey. But more likely than either of those is the chance that it’s bright, neon rainbow colors. It reminds you of the fruity pebbles cereal you were never allowed to eat as a kid. In one intense, all-consuming moment, you are faced with the truth: You. Must. Eat it. And then your dog barks. Your friend talks to you. The doctor calls you in for your appointment. You tear your eyes away from the gravel, but it will always be there in your mind. There with you as you eat, taunting you with what could have been. Anyway yeah vote aquarium gravel it looks yum

Tide pods:

We all remember the tide pod challenge

There’s literally a wikipedia article titled “Consumption of Tide Pods”

Looks chewy and it could explode in your mouth. Has fun colors too.

It was a popular delicacy a couple years ago yet also highly controversial. Everyone likee some good drama in a competition.

THE MEMES

[softpastelqueer]

Ultimately we’d do good to realize that reality isn’t important once sensationalism has taken ahold

I mean does anyone ACTUALLY care tide pod consumption was only 37 cases, with only half intentional?

No of course not, but it didn’t stop a moral panic from arising including from millennials who were outraged we got associated with it despite not being the age demo reportedly doing it

And whenever you cite the low amount of cases compared to how many young people there were at the time, people will still refuse to believe you

And yet you’ll still get people bringing it up relatively still commonly

[nathansqueak]

we are at the point of hiding toilet paper, laundry detergent, and now paper towels from our roommates because they're wasteful and inconsiderate and are constantly using up the things we buy and not replacing them until we leave the box empty and they eventually HAVE to buy more

it started with the toilet paper. my partner and I both have issues with hemorrhoids and thus bought more expensive toilet paper as it's usually softer and is less likely to tear up our assholes. we can't afford to buy the fancy toilet paper for the whole house.

next it was the laundry detergent. my partner and I had just bought a full container of tide pods when we put together that it was likely the detergent that was giving us both weird skin itching/rashes and had to switch to gain pods. we told our roommates to keep using the tide pods, that we got the gain pods for us for skin sensitivity issues. cool no problem. I used the gain pods one time and when I went back the container was already almost empty. checked the tide container thinking they got confused. nope, that one was empty too. now I'm confused because how the fuck did they go through that much detergent that fast?? anyway we left two gain pods in that container as a decoy and bought a new container for our room.

its only typing this out that I'm realizing how much we spend in this house.

anyway we realized the paper towels are also going extremely fast so now I guess we have to hide those too. we bought a pack of six rolls like two weeks ago. I think we only used two of them ourselves.

it's a ridiculous sort of consumption without any awareness. how are they using this much?? where is it all going???

one time I bought some simple green cleaner and only got a couple uses out of it and now when I occasionally traverse into their bedroom looking for dirty dishes I see its empty bottle staring up at me from the corner of their floor, whispering "father why? how could you let them take me? you could have reused my bottle but now I am garbage. father why have you abandoned me"

need better roommates.

[queenofcthulu]

So I grew up around the area where they mine Borax, in Boron, California for 20 Mule Team Borax. I have cursory knowledge of it as my great grandfather worked in the mines and a number of great uncles lived in that dinky town in the Mojave desert. Borax forms naturally from some evaporated lakes the same way many mineral deposits do including table salt. Concerns about contamination with arsenic, I would say probably not they are pretty good about separating these days and most arsenic is found in different locations closer to geothermal lu active areas.

So Borax is a type of borate, an oxygen based molecule with Boron. Most borates are considered as deadly as table salt in humans. Which is to say, if they were tasty we would probably eat them more.

They are in fact very deadly to arthropods and are often used as a non-toxic pesticide. The few deaths attributed to Borax were due to infants consuming roach poisons in the 1960s (also during a time of a lot of lead paint being used in homes so I would personally consider that a potential contributor).

The most dangerous part of Borax is probably just inhaling the dust as it is a mild irritant to the lungs.

Working in a Boron mine is where I personally think probably where most of the hazards and concerns for health may come from, seeing as most reports were from the 1960s and that's before most of the work was automated and proper safety masks existed. Anecdotally, my great grandparents lived up to their late 80s and early 90s and even so it was probably the chain smoking that got them first.

Anyways the point is that a spoonful of Borax will most likely result in a little tummy ache or diarrhea, the borates are absorbed extremely quickly and filtered into urine without hanging around in the body so these people probably expel all of it within a day.

It might hang around in the bones a bit but there's no adverse effects from this that we know about.

Essentially, it's mostly harmless, far less dangerous than eating a tide pod, but still unnecessary and weird. I'm personally glad they aren't ingesting any number of other more dangerous things.

If these folks are eating other forms of Boron they may be in more danger, but if it's the 20 Mule Team Borax (the most readily available form) they should be fine. That doesn't mean I endorse doing this; by no means should you consume Borax as it's not rated by governing bodies for human consumption, and long term ingestion can slowly develop long term digestion problems and headaches.

watching people on tiktok consume borax is uh. something.

[packaging2]

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[gregg-reuben]

We probably cant buy our way out of it

We probably can’t buy our way out of it https://seths.blog/2023/04/the-rare-trifecta/ That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line up, the market takes care of itself. On the other hand, seatbelts would never have happened if they weren’t required. But pizza grew to dominate our diets with no centralized action. They sell a lot of Tide laundry detergent. Billions of dollars a year, that’s enough pods to reach the moon and back. Even though Tide usually comes in a big plastic container and weighs many pounds, we keep buying it. That’s because it’s convenient, easy to find and not particularly expensive. One of the challenges of changing a culture that’s driven by consumption is that people voluntarily choose what to buy next. And so we get stuck. Stuck with products and systems that we’re not happy with, simply because it’s easier to stick with what we already have. The status quo is the status quo because it’s good at sticking around. And yet, sometimes we get lucky. Consider this simple product for washing your clothes. It’s super convenient, even more so than Tide. It’s almost as cheap. It’s dramatically more sustainable. It has a jillion 5-star reviews. And yet, it has a tiny fraction of Tide’s market share (so far). We can’t buy out way out of the climate crisis, we’ll need to compromise, to invest and to rethink the systems that we depend on. But every once in a while, you can simply change what you buy, and even better, tell someone else when it works.

[purbsi]

remember how shitty it was when your parents called you/the rest of your generation lazy and entitled? More people were actively taking videos for The Gallon Challenge and the Cinnamon Challenge and people actively dropping solid ice on their heads for the ALS thing than there ever were kids who actually ate the damn Tide Pods (without counting unrelated consumption). I'm tired of us saying OK Boomer and then doing exactly what Boomers do to the youth as soon as they pop out. Especially from those of us that were bullied in other areas. We know the bullies are just people who learned bullying from other, shittier people, right? Let's actually do better.

im actually not interested in any analysis of gen alpha until the members of that generation are old enough to have a place in the discussion. maybe we stop projecting our fears onto the current youth and and start listen to the current youth's own reflections on their culture.

[ask-awt]

are tide pods tasty? would you recommend them?

I mean, it depends. You’re on the human internet, so you’re presumably human, and Clari says the stuff I eat is not suitable for human consumption, so probably no? I mean they taste fine to me, but I don’t- look, okay, I’ll just… I’ll just finish these, that way nobody else gets into them. I really don’t think humans are allowed to eat these. This is a weird question, I’m not going to lie

( @redacted-thething )

[acecartoonplatypus]

Concept

Tide pods, but instead of being filled with detergent and other deadly shit, it's like filled with fruity syrup like the stuff inside gushers or w/e. This satisfies the need to eat tide pods without actually getting seriously sick and/or dead for a meme

[helen007900]

I wonder if which forbidden snacks you crave says something about what type of fucked up you are.

[rainbowbread91]

tide pod consumption

What horrors is he witnessing on the holonet

[garden-uprooted]

If you like bleach, you should try tide pods! Here! [tosses a bunch in spinel's general direction]

“oOOoOoOoOoOo!” 

Grabby little hands gather up the multicolored pods of, what she assumed to be, tides from the ocean? Somehow? So just like- water with a fancy casing? But like bleach, also? 

Eh. She really wasn’t in the mood to read too much into her own confusing thought process. Almost everything on Earth was already confusing, so as far as she was concerned, she was right on the money. 

Maybe it was like this “sparkling water” she’d heard so much about!

… One bite and she’s immediately coughing and spitting out her first crunch of the pod. 

“thESE ARE DISGUSTING..!!” 

“.               .              .” 

“I like it~”