dash?

[filterflo58]

Ive heard that P&G Dash is back on the market, and now I see Shoprite has it for sale in next weeks cicular,138oz(odd size) for 1.99.
I hope its not that lemon crap from the 1980's-90,s..and i doubt its the real deal.
Anyone try it yet?
Is there a powder?

 

[oxydolfan1]

"I hope its not that lemon crap from the 1980's-90,s..and i doubt its the real deal."

I have, and it's even worse than the 80's lemon version (which I actually liked!)

I did a few washes with it and was disappointed with the results.
Now I'm using it in my bathtub, when I scrub it down.

Yep, it's that bad.

And, no, there's no powder. There are three liquids: fresh scent, lemon, and "bleach alternative". I tried the bleach alternative one and it was dismal.

 

[panthera]

138oz

Would come out pretty close to a metric size, I wonder if these aren't aimed at the very low end non-US market elsewhere and some young-dynamic-in-duh-vi-duh-al actually believed the marketing department...
It is kinda sad, really - one of the reasons metric has never caught on in the US is because of this nonsense of 3.97 or 1.12 and so on. We don't do that in the rest of the world - we work in simple whole units of 10. Instead of just upping or lowering the contents a tiny bit to go from a whole English common number to a reasonable metric number, the manufacturers insist on putting an absurd fractional "equivalent" on the container.
No wonder most Americans think metric is impossibly difficult.

 

[mielabor]

metric?

According to my conversion table 138 ounces are equivalent to 3.91 kg which is also an odd quantity for me being grown up in a metric environment.

 

[panthera]

Theo,

If you take it out exactly, of course you are right. But a bottle which holds 138oz. would not be normal for American production lines. American oz. are slightly bigger than UK ounces for some absurd reason, so growing up with metric you probably associate "oz." with the Imperial volume.
A bottle which holds 4 liters would certainly make sense and I could well see 138 American oz. fitting into it perfectly.
Would a company set up and run an expensive production line just to make a non-US standard size bottle for a cheap laundry detergent? I don't think so.
Of course, this could originally have been meant for a powder and that would explain the weird volume.

 

[mielabor]

liquid Dash

Keven, I completely overlooked the fact that we're dealing with a liquid detergent here. When I saw the name Dash I immediately thought of the big, round and sturdy cardboard boxes containing 10 kgs of powder that my mother used many years ago and that we afterwards used for storing toys and other items.

When Marks & Spencer had a branch store in Amsterdam I noticed the opposite in the food department: odd quantities in grams that made more sense when converted into ounces.

That said, two dollars for 4 litres of detergent seems very cheap to me.

 

[panthera]

Theo,

It seems so cheap to me, I keep asking myself whether I haven't made a mistake.
Yeah, powder and liquid, imperial and non-imperial.
Gosh - it took me like five minutes to figure metric out when I got to Germany.
I wonder how much business Americans lose on the world market by sticking to English common? It sure makes stuff more expensive to buy in the 'States.
The days when stuff was more expensive in Europe are long gone, we benefit from having standardized dimensions...just look at the difference between induction units in the US and here.

 

[peterh770]

It is not a P&G product... I believe someone posted about it before and I think it is the same company that is putting out Solo. Cheap, sudsy crap...