Talked about this recently, but it’s probably the best mass-market product* to have been introduced in the last 15 years and I’m so dependent on them, they’ve just become “sponge” like q-tips or bandaids.
There's a number of actuallu well-regarded products I would never use because of how terrible the branding is. Scrub Daddy's probably on it, but the top of the list is hands down Manscaped.
Throwback to when axe made slightly worse deodorants and then marketed them with badass wolves and lions n shit. So cool, so masculine — who doesn’t want to smell like a magical dire wolf?
The scour daddy is a superior version of the dobie, which was my previous favorite textured cleaning sponge. But also in my household we call it a 'scrub homie'
Worked at pizza place for years that had "big daddy" as a size of pie, people were clearly uncomfortable saying big daddy to me over the phone, It rocked
it's off-putting enough that I don't think I'll ever buy one no matter how many good things I hear about them (which, I hear a surprising amount considering it's just a sponge)
Ok plz don’t eat me, friendly large mob, but: why…? Like, because it implied a gender binary? Or b/c “daddy” can be sexual? Or something else altogether??
That’s very fair — I’d talk philosophy of mothers and fathers in my ideal gender less world, but I think shorterm we can agree we don’t need them in our sponges.
BRB gonna brainstorm gender less replacements for a few hours
Scrub Daddy also has a Scrub Mommy which is for some reason pink and dual-sided? I don’t know what kind of perversion is going on here but we shouldn’t encourage it
when one of my housemates brought one home I instantly formed ill-conceived notions about the housemate’s psychosexual nature I did not want to think about.
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*Not counting food: Popeyes chicken sandwich, coke freestyle machine, extra toasty cheez-its
(Don’t yell at me, that’s how they work)
Maybe I'm biased though.
BRB gonna brainstorm gender less replacements for a few hours