We have an ant problem at work, so I went to buy some Raid. I couldn’t resist buying the can that advertised a country fresh scent. It appealed greatly to my sense of oddness. Can’t ya picture it? The sound of cows mooing, the scent of fields of fresh alfalfa and corn, the feeling of countless ant carcasses under your boot?
I have a can of “metal parts cleaner” that advertises its fresh orange scent. It’s carburetor cleaner, for Chrissakes! I use it to kill wasps when wasp poison isn’t quick enough! And yet, it’s scented…if you can smell it, you’re already being drain bamaged, but it’s got a nice orange scent.
We have orange-scented deadly-fumed car parts cleaner stuff in the shed, too.
Also, I have some Testor’s model glue with a lovely orange-fresh scent that just BEGS you to sit there and sniff the glue.
::looking in the cabinet:: Hey, we have country-fresh bug spray too!
Thought: I live in the country. It don’t smell like that.
I feel so cheated. But it’ll still be fun to watch those ants die.
Wow- my husband uses carburetor cleaner to kill wasps also. He is very afraid of wasps, and that stuff makes them dead quicker than anything.
Wow!~ This is so funny. I just killed a paper wasp nest in my back yard with carburetor cleaner because I was out of wasp killer. Amazing…they just froze & died on the spot. Mine wasn’t orange scented, though.
Snoooopy…Hilarious! The shit they come up with to sell us things…My brother is a successful advertising exec in Europe. You reminded me to write & ask him about some of the thinking behind products like country fresh ant killer.
The thing with me is, I don’t like those country-fresh things, for one reason:
I know what the country smells like.
I wouldn’t want a product that smelled like the country (for those of you who aren’t this lucky, it’s 75% cow manure, 10% mulch/rotting leaves, 10% sun-baked dirt and 5% skunk musk). I don’t want a product that SAYS it smells like the country but actually smells like somebody killed a perfume factory with a flower bomb.
I can just the developers of that bug spray now saying, “Well if were going to mass kill millions of ants, we should AT LEAST be humane about it and make it smell nice while they’re writhing in pain and taking they’re last breath.”