Yes. In fact, even Tide has one - they sell a clear pod containing their “sensitive skin” product with no dye and no scent. {ETA ninja’d!)
My local laundromat has several buckets of pods, allowing you to purchase detergent for your washing. Everything from the classic “candy” Tide pod through things that look much less appealing to clear pods and packs. Clearly, some companies either never made their pods look like candy or have already made the change.
these kids aren’t eating it because it “looks like candy.”
Some people are, though. Kids and others with impaired judgment.
As a kid in the '70 s I ate baby aspirin* (loved the flavor) and Mentholatum for the same reason. I think the pods would be wonderful to bite into and pop - like the oral version of popping bubble wrap.
*As in, ate by the handful. I’ve no idea why I didn’t die. The Mentholatum probably wasn’t recommended as an edible either.
Then in flies a guy who’s all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I’ve won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack.
I don’t know about Tide pods, but our Cascade dishwasher pods do have an appealing citrus kind of scent to them. Sure, no excuse for people with a functioning brain to eat them, but for those less-than-aware like kids or demented adults, I can see the appeal.
Right, as someone pointed out earlier there are two distinct things going on here: (a) Detergent pods looking like candy to children and to the addled (or old school baby aspirin actually being largely candylike), which is worrisome, understanddable, and worthy of preventive measures, and (b) People conscientiously taking a mouthful of pod on a dare or for the sake to make a streaming clip, which is flat out stupid.
My brother ate a nearly full bottle of Flintstones vitamins and drank a bottle of peptobismol, he had to have his stomach pumped, and those items were for consumption. I can’t imagine what would happen to someone eating tide pods. It really is stupid.
Does anyone know what it would do to an otherwise healthy young person, say 18-20 yrs. old?
But not the full bottle!
One of my Facebook friends, a HS classmate, said that she had to call Poison Control once on each of her 3 kids; one ate Vicks Vaporub, another tasted another common nonfood household product I can’t remember right now, and the third ate a handful of table salt. The only thing they said she needed to be worried about was the salt, and gave her a list of symptoms to watch for. The child did not experience them, and is now a young adult.
I suggested (tangentially in another thread) but it really fits better in this thread:
Who has any good Tide Pod recipes to contribute? We could publish a Straight Dope book of them.
Tide Pod au gratin, nicely browned, is excellent.
Also makes good casseroles and pizza topping.
I’m channeling the “nachos” they now make with taters tots instead of chips.
Layer of Tide Pods
Top with sauce of glass countertop crème
Sprinkle liberally with laundry flakes