• billwashere
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    581 year ago

    Replace someone’s bedside lube with this.

    • @EmoBean
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      231 year ago

      Or the office hand sanitizer

      • kase
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        241 year ago

        Or the office lube

  • FauxPseudo
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    491 year ago

    Flavored lubes have gone too far

    • Cethin
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      111 year ago

      You’re joking, but if they actually made a flavored lube like this I bet it’d sell.

        • Cethin
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          31 year ago

          Yeah, it’d obviously need to be made of other ingredients. The sugar content would also likely cause some issues.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            I was gonna say, I’m not sure there’s non-acidic ingredients that have the same acidic/sour taste.

            But there are these bubblegums that are extremely sour, so I guess, we do have a way of triggering those taste receptors without melting away your jaw. 🫠

            • @BeardedBaker
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              61 year ago

              Everything sour is acidic, the sour taste comes from the hydrogen ions (protons) donated by acids blocking the potassium ions leaving your taste buds, this creates a depolarization and opens voltage gated calcium channels, the influx of which causes neurotransmitter release. Sour gums/candies don’t contain Acetic acid (vinegar) but instead Citric acid and sometimes Malic acid.

  • @Stanwich
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    311 year ago

    Ahhhh Pepsi clear vibes. No regrats.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    This is nonsense of course. The colour of food makes a surprising difference in how palatable we find it.

    This would never sell and heinz knows it :) even if it tasted the same.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Ginger beer/ale is a thing. Not quite sure how it would interact with the mountain dew, but I could certainly see trying it.

      • @Holyhandgrenade
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        I think gimmicky limited-time-only products have become more prevalent in the past few years. The type of stuff that people buy because they’re curious and never buy again.
        I wonder why this is the case now, maybe there’s a perceived uptick in sales of the original product when the gimmicky variety is out there?

        • @dustyData
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          21 year ago

          Old marketing strat. The idea is just to get people talking about the brand. If the limited-run item doesn’t sell, or if there isn’t an uptick in the regular product’s sales (normally there isn’t) it’s no big deal. The brand got more staying power in the public’s mind. That’s what matter.

        • Apathy Tree
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          11 year ago

          The only time I ever see limited run items is when they are on clearance shelves or at the Amish clearance place because they are absolute shit. I guess I’ve rarely actually seen limited run products near the original.

          Sometimes I buy them at the steep discount (couple bucks tops) to see if I’m missing anything. Usually not. For example I bought some cotton candy balls… think cheese balls but blue and cotton candy flavored. Except they tasted more like marshmallows, being a cornstarch puff… I still have most of the container because they weren’t very good lol

        • @reptar
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          11 year ago

          I suspect the uptick is in the limited-time-only. Maybe a chance to capture new customers too.

      • You must not have been alive for the 90s when we had neon gel flavoring to draw on our oatmeal with and random balls floating in a very thick soft drink and a marvelous thing called a Gelooze.

      • The Barto
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        41 year ago

        Here in Australia we sold Burger sauce hot cross buns with melted cheese and pickles on it… Companies will make anything just to see if we will eat it.

      • @Yokozuna
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        31 year ago

        I remember the green one, I tried to eat it but my brain wouldn’t let me.

      • Maeve
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        31 year ago

        Gimmicks to sell empty, bland calories, so we don’t realize people can be heavy and literally starving to death.

  • @Fridgeratr
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    101 year ago

    Mmm tomato flavored hand sanitizer

  • Dr. Coomer
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    41 year ago

    And to think the most interesting thing I learned today was that heinz sells vinegar.

  • @samus12345
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    31 year ago

    While this was an interesting mock-up, the clear “ketchup’s” viscosity is far too thick.

    • @ArbiterXero
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      41 year ago

      Like it wasn’t bad enough already and now it looks like lube? Ugh!

      • @Sanctus
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        41 year ago

        Hey! Lube is tasty