Dial soap has been a staple in my shower since the pleistocene. Big yellow bar makes for squeaky clean epidermal surfaces, etc.
But wait! What’s this? No more big bar, now a highly compromised size and a fraudulent shape.
Okay. Let me back up a few steps. I’m reluctantly entering the new, underwhelming CVS on Mission and I reach for a value-pack of Dial deodorant soap. I take it home. I open it, and I unwrap the normal-sized packaging.
The bar inside was anything but normal-sized. The once-robust rectangle had been cunningly hollowed out so that there was much less soap. Same basic outline, but much less bulk.
How rude! And no it wasn’t any cheaper. It was simply a new, wimpy bar of soap masquerading as the same old reliable, full-bodied bar of soap.
Not good.
It’s not just the handsoap, Christina. Buy a box of clotheswashing detergent and try to figure out the faint little fill lines on the plastic scooper that comes inside the box. Those little fill lines are hard to see and ambiguous, no doubt because most people want clean clothes and therefore put in some extra, including me, dammit! The more ambiguous those little fill lines on the scoopers, the merrier the soap companies’ bank accounts. Consumer product scientists have actually figured out how to add a non-soapy extender to their liquid dishwashing soaps, so you will have to use more of it and therefore have to buy more soap. Personally, I seldom wash my clothes or take showers because it’s too damn expensive. But my book doesn’t stink, and neither did Zerky.
–Bill Raney
Darling,
It was sure nice to see you out and about yesterday. I had to rush off to meeting (or, at least I thought so, until I discovered that I had a flat battery) so I didn’t get a chance to catch up. But I’m delighted to see that you will be replacing Andy Rooney when it comes to various items and how we are being shortchanged every where we eat, bathe and dance. love you.
Melo – I wanted to talk after Karen Kefauver’s fab Social Networking event – but you rushed off!
Maybe after the Nov. 17th one.
xoxo
C.