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    2 months 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.

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    A few years ago, we receive an email at work to inform us someone has died after drinking from an unlabeled plastic bottle that was filled with toxic chemicals.

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        I don’t remember, I don’t think they gave more information. I just know that the chemical should not have been in such bottle and it should not have been placed there. Maybe the victim just thought it was water.

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          I learned my lesson not to drink from strange bottles long ago. Thankfully it was because me and all my underage friends (hol up this was back when I was underage too! Haha) used to hide our vodka in water bottles, and on more than one occasion someone (once or twice me) would pick one up and take a huge swig mistaking it for water. Thankfully nobody died from that, but it felt like you were going to at the time!

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      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.

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          I can’t imagine drinking a half gallon of milk before it starts to go bad. Three full gallons is madness to me

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            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.

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    Several years ago at a restaurant in Utah someone mixed a packet of cleaning chemicals instead of lemonade powder because they looked identical. An old lady drank it and died.

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    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”.

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

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      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.

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      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…

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    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?

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      You can still have whatever insane labels you want.

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

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      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.