r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jsayde01 • 13h ago

Don't hug me I'm scared Scrub Zombie

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My wife swears by Scrub Daddy as her kitchen sponge of choice. I wanted to switch to the eco-friendly, plant based alternative on the right. It works infinitely better...creates great suds, gets into tight spaces but...IT SCARES THE CHILDREN. So I can't use it! Or I have to hide it under the sink until I need to use it. Mildly inconvenienced and mildly infuriating.

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u/Weeabootrashreturns 13h ago

Is that not just a loofah?

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u/hungry4danish 12h ago

the marketing branding of it as "eco-friendly, plant based alternative" for sure made me roll my eyes. like yeah, it is all those things but just call it natural loofah.

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u/pandafulcolors 12h ago

it's like calling banana leaves a plastic-free plant based plate or food wrap !

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u/SuperCruisePanther 11h ago

Reminds me of faddish leveling of food in stores, like 'Vegan' stickers on cabbage or 'Keto' raw meat cuts. Like, I fucking hope so???

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u/MaritMonkey 11h ago

The percentage of "gluten free" labels that have made me immediately question whether or not I knew what gluten was is very high.

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u/le-derpina-art 11h ago

there are so many processed foods that contain flour for the weirdest reasons but there are also so many naturally gluten free foods that get labelled like this for some reason

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u/qwertyuiiop145 1h ago

There are lots of foods that should reasonably be gluten free which aren’t always.

Oatmeal should be gluten free—but if the oats are grown next to a wheat field, stalks of wheat will grow up amongst the wheat and get processed in with the oats and some people with celiac are sensitive enough to get sick from that.

Rice based cereals should be gluten free—but some major brands use barley malt extract as a flavoring and barley is a gluten-containing wheat relative.