• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 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.

    • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 days ago

      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.

          • the_trash_man@lemmy.world
            35·
            4 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
            2·
            4 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
      4·
      3 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.

      • SuperNovaStarEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I don’t live in a predominantly latine area and we have it in Walmart

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    134·
    4 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.

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
    50·
    4 days ago

    never mind that, why would you have baking soda in bottles???

    It’s a tiny package of white powder. What is this insanity?

    • EvelynGraceEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      It’s a cleaning product with baking soda in it, not actual baking soda for cooking

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
    48·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    51·
    4 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”.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      29·
      4 days ago

      Yeah that “ice cream” is a bit different from this fabuloso situation.

    • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca
      25·
      4 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
      21·
      4 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…

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    39·
    4 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?

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      You can still have whatever insane labels you want.

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

    • desktop_user
      0·
      3 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.

    • prole
      22·
      4 days ago

      Holy shit is that three gallons of milk?

        • prole
          1·
          3 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
            2·
            2 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.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    4 days ago

    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.