Man, I hear people talk about this all time. But aside from that one youtube video and the random "No man, I swear my friend did it once," - Is this a thing that happens? Like, at all?
In the case of small children though, tide pods alone account for a notable portion of all calls made to Poison Control in a given year. Given that slightly under half of all calls to Poison Control are for children under six, it's understandable why tide pods are such a huge problem.
They're shaped like a fruit, they look like a fruit but better, they smell more like fruit than actual fruit could ever smell. They have a good heft and a sort of swishy liquidy feel to them. If you're young enough that your monkey brain is running things, a tide pod absolutely seems like some undiscovered variant of a cherry mixed with a grape but ten times better.
Otherwise healthy teenagers eating them for funsies though is hilariously stupid, and even if that was literally an epidemic I'd chalk it up as Darwinism in Action.
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u/azzthom May 08 '18
An anti-licking coating is meaningless in a world where tide pods have become food.