New York Wants To Ban Tide Pods Because Folks Keep Eating Them, Proof That Society Is Doomed
I’m sorry, y’all, but the fact that Tide pods need to be discussed on a food news website at all is totally embarrassing for us as a society.
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A bill in New York is looking to ban Tide pods from production to keep the social media clowns from ingesting them and getting sick. The law, if passed, would force companies to make detergents of just one color and make them less appealing to kids so people stop ingesting them. This would include wrapping them in opaque plastic and making everything one uniform color.
The fact that we even have to consider creating laws like this is ridiculous. Have we really come to the point where government officials have to treat us like infants? There’s already plenty of warnings on the packaging to not eat Tide Pods, and yet, the temptation of a fleeting moment of internet fame is enough for people to risk their lives. Yes, you can actually die from the “Tide Pod Challenge,” folks, in case it wasn’t clear from all of the danger symbols.
What’s even sadder than this, though, is that even if Tide Pods are banned, the push to pull new idiotic stunts for the internet street cred will just have people trying something else. Before the pods, there was the cinnamon challenge, the Diet Coke and Mentos challenge, and the milk gallon challenge. All of which involve participants potentially harming themselves in hopes of going viral.
I get that slapstick humor from the likes of Tom & Jerry or Wile E. Coyote got us all rolling on Saturday mornings. But while the cartoon characters could take any form of punishment, our bodies can’t.
Hopefully, the mere consideration of one state banning Tide Pods is enough of a wake-up call to get people off of the “ingesting stupid shit” challenge bandwagon and try more creative ways to score some internet cool points.
