Laundry Pods: The Forbidden Fruit. Why are people EATING these?

If anyone here still uses Facebook, they may have noticed an explosion of memes lately about eating Tide Pods.

Before I go any further…

DO NOT EAT LAUNDRY PODS

For the love of God just… don't.

NBC first released an article not too long ago saying that "more adults have died from eating laundry pods than children".

But… why?

I did a little digging, and found my answer.

Kitswulf, a user on Tumblr, explained:
"Because a ton of the visual/olfactory/textural sensory information these pods give me match nutritionally-dense fruit. It’s got the oleic gleam of something high-fat like an avocado, but bright carotenoid-rich coloration like a berry that wants to be eaten by red-seeing primates and birds. It tends to smell sweet and slightly floral, enhancing that effect. Similarly, when you hold it, it is quite dense (denser than water), but very soft and liquid, once again reaffirming that this “fruit” has either high sugar or high fat content and almost no cellulose to it."

But again. I'll say it louder for the people in the back.

DO. NOT. EAT. LAUNDRY. PODS.

It is TOXIC. You could DIE.

Kitswulf goes on to say:
"As a result, within me is a less-clever monkey just screaming to eat this delicious fruit in my hand about to go into the laundry, and it does in fact take willpower to tell him he’s a stupid monkey and this is a bubble of foul-tasting poison. But every time I do laundry, this fucking limbic monstrosity rises again and assures me it’s basically like a cherry but Even Better. I have legitimately debated just biting down on one in the hopes of inducing a deterrent memory to forestall this urge in the future, but that’s what my goddamn mammal-brain wants me to fucking do and I refuse to let it win."

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So in short, the monkey part of your brain tells you "this is a fruit. Eat it." While the human brain is telling you "don't be an idiot. That is brightly colored, nasty tasting poision."

So, next time you're doing a load of laundry, and a part of your brain says "don't throw the pod in there, it's fruit. Eat it." Just don't. Eat an apple instead, and thank me later.

And for the love of God, don't drink the blue toilet water either.

(All images were found on Google, they are not mine)