Tide Pods food meme has gone too far — just look at all the locked up detergent

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You know a meme has gone too far when grocery stores respond by locking up all the Tide Pods. 

Several stores including Walmart, Walgreens, Ralph’s, and Food 4 Less have locked up Tide Pods in plastic blocks or behind glass doors, according to recent social media reports. The protective measure comes as the Tide Pods internet challenge and meme hits peak stupidity. 

y’all really joked around so much that tide put their tide pods in plastic boxes…smh pic.twitter.com/Z44efALcX5

— ㅤnavid (@NavidHasan_) January 13, 2018 Read more…

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Chrissy Teigen just shared an observation about Trump you won’t be able to unread

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Sometimes it’s the simplest observations that are the best.

Chrissy Teigen, whose Twitter feed is now so famous it pretty much deserves its own show, is the queen of this.

On Sunday evening, she shared an observation that will surely send ripples far and wide throughout the world:

trump became president the same year people started eating tide pods

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 15, 2018

Yep: 2017 will forever be known as both the year that Trump was sworn into office and the year some people started seriously considering ingesting those colourful little laundry detergent bubbles (please, please don’t do this, btw). Read more…

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Some genius made Tide Pod sushi you can actually eat

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For better or for worse, a lot of people on the internet think Tide Pods look delicious. For better or for worse, I am one of them.

So I was thrilled to see that according to r/food, a friend of Redditor dweron appears to have successfully made edible Tide Pods in sushi form — a feat I am now affectionately calling “the dream.”

To be clear, this isn’t the first time the topic of edible Pods has been broached online. There’s been a hypothetical recipe floating around for a few days now. But that one — let’s be honest — seems pretty flavorless, and this one looks a little more appetizing. It even appears to have retained that iconic Tide Pod squish. Read more…

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Everything you need to know about the internet’s new obsession with eating Tide pods

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Rule number one is do not believe everything you read on the internet—especially if someone is encouraging you to eat Tide pods. 

Seriously. 

Over the past week, Twitter has been filled with people talking about eating Tide pods—those convenient liquid laundry detergent alternatives—and it’s really strange but also incredibly hilarious. But, uh, why is this all happening exactly? Here’s what we know. 

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