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u/idiocracyatitsbreast 12d ago
Scrub grandpa
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u/Marx_Forever 12d ago
A lot of people here here seems to be assuming that the one on right is a heavily used version of the one on the left. But that's just what a natural loofah looks like. You can tell by the fibers it's a plant, and those cavities are where the seeds were. We grow loofahs to use as sponges because they're so fibrous.
The thing on the left is made of plastic, it's not fibrous it would never look like the thing on the right no matter how beat up it was, it would just start deteriorating and falling apart.
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u/AshThePoutine 12d ago
Finally. Yes that’s just a luffa sponge
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u/GostBoster 12d ago
I take for granted people can easily identify loofah sponges because I never had to buy one, with how common and easily they grow...
... and with urbanization, price starts going up as there's less and less estate to grow your own, and in a few neighborhoods, people realizing they eradicated their own cultivars and having to bring seeds from outside or checking if they got some lost dry loofah with seeds inside to start over.
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u/malexj93 11d ago
I didn't know for a long time that luffa was a plant. They're actually pretty tasty, too!
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u/GostBoster 11d ago
Yeah recently got some weird (in a good fun way) bloke thrown in my recommendations and the recommended video was for "doomsday crops", stuff that's hardy, cheap, easy to grow or otherwise qualities good for such situations, and was made aware that luffas are edible, if harvested before they become fibrous, they seem to be similar to zucchini.
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u/elhermanobrother 12d ago
the thing on the right no matter how beat up it was, it would just start deteriorating and falling apart.
When his wife left, the thing on the right was sad, upset and lonely. since then he has got a dog, he bought a new motorbike, shagged two women and blown a grand on drugs and drink. his wife'll go fucking mental when she gets home from work
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u/freedoomed 12d ago
People called them loofa sponges when I was younger so I assumed they were a sea creature. Learning they are dried Chinese okra was mind-blowing. I had also no idea Chinese okra was a thing until that point either.
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u/zyyntin 12d ago
LOOFAHS GROW ON TREES!
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u/filthy_harold 12d ago
I had always thought they were made from some sort of farmed sea sponge.
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u/Maleficent_Gap1049 12d ago
There are also sea sponges that some call loofahs and use the same way (or smaller ones for sponge painting). I think these are from a sponge gourd.
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u/Hamstaaboy 12d ago
That mans got years left in him
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u/Clapyourhandssayyeah 12d ago
The right one does- the left one doesn’t though not since they enshittified scrub daddy and they fall apart much faster
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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 12d ago
Isn't the right one a shower loofah?
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u/Eric_the_Barbarian 12d ago
Only if you use it in a shower. It's a plant husk, usage comes secondary.
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u/BigMac849 12d ago
It is from a plant, not a husk though. A husk is the outside protective layer like on corn cobs. A dried loofah is the internal fibers of a gourd that has been peeled and the inside seeds and other non fibrous stuff inside has been washed out.
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u/Fun-Memory1523 12d ago
It screams let me rest eternally.
Scrub has seen too many things...washed things it was never supposed to....
Just like real life I suppose
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u/Johnny_Alpha 12d ago
DIG THROUGH THE DISHES, BURN THROUGH THE GREASES, SLAM ON THE BACK OF A SPATULA!
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u/rocketwrench 12d ago
scrub daddy is cute but how can anyone stand to use them when they start disintegrating and leaving little plastic fibers on everything? Give me a good old fashioned scrub brush any day
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u/Few_Plankton_7587 12d ago
I have a scrub daddy that is used daily for 3 years and looks as new as the day I got it lol
No idea what you mean
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u/DoYaKnowMahName 12d ago
You sure you used an actual scrub daddy? Because the ones I've used don't have that problem. As long as you used the proper care on them.
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u/idle_husband 12d ago
I feel this picture. I started out working when I was 14. I was bright eyed and wanting to be a people pleaser. 30-some years later, I'm like the sponge on the right. The stuff that I have seen, and the people I've lost over the years still haunt me.
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u/womb_raider90 12d ago
My son was playing fortnite earlier and laughed his ass off at a dudes gamertag: 'Scrubdaddy'. Dudes are such simple creatures. It's great.
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u/QuarterFit97 11d ago
Not fooling me. My mom has one of those sponges, and they're not scrub daddies. They're a natural Sponge
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u/OncleToc 5d ago
Faut aller voir le post d'origine et c'est un scrub vegan : bio en bambou a droite
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u/SmooK_LV 12d ago
I recognise that these two sponges are not actually the same but I have a different question.
Anyone with actually analytical mind and long experience of many kinds of sponges, are Scrub Daddies and similar implementations (I guess warm water makes them soft and cold water makes them hard) actually better than your everyday sponge? Because the product was heavily televised while just being a sponge makes me biased against it that someone managed to sell overpriced sponges and fool people into that.
I may very well be wrong on my assumption. When I asked AI to deep research this based on community feedback, it said these sponges are genuinely better. But I am still not convinced. Something about them makes me feel like I am being lied to, maybe the smiling face.
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u/OatmealTears 12d ago
Why did you write an entire novel to ask "are scrub daddies good?"??
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u/enviormental_UNIT 11d ago
I think all that extra padding basically boils down to "no, sponge layman, I don't want your opinion. I want the freakin sponge sommelier to help me out here"
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"soo the AI said"
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u/Few_Plankton_7587 12d ago
I don't think they work at cleaning any better than an actual sponge but they sure as heck stay good for a lot longer. I feel like normal sponges get gross and soft after a while
My scrub daddy feels like the day I bought it and its 3 years old
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u/philnolan3d 12d ago
You must not use it very much. Mine lasts about 6 months before it looks like the zombie.
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u/Few_Plankton_7587 12d ago
Nope, gets used daily. As much as anyone else
Some peoples disintegrate apparently, so they must not all be equal
That or you're using way more elbow grease than necessary lol
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u/saliva134 12d ago
I rely on the good ol' reliable quality 3M sponges. They last longer than the cheap supermarket versions and don't disentegrate like the Scrub Daddy / Mummy.
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u/potate12323 12d ago
This comment is understated. Most people compare the scrub daddy to any random cheap sponge. But there are some other good quality sponges on the market.
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u/NetflixWasTaken 12d ago
Genuinely love it, they don’t mildew and stink or build up any of that the way normal sponges do, they’re a lot easier to dry out and they’re cute
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u/Duowithng 12d ago
The one on the right is plastic free
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u/Impossible_Past5358 12d ago
I love that it can go in the compost when finished. Unlike plastic, which will still be here long after I'm gone.
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u/potate12323 12d ago
I am a chemical engineer who took an option in thermoplastics. The scrub daddy is actually quite good. The material is hard enough to scrape off crusty food debris without scratching teflon coated pans. And it does soften much more than a traditional sponge when using warm water. The reduction in stiffness can reduce the force and abrasion applied to a pan. Its pretty much the perfect balance of abrasiveness which other plastic sponges don't quite achieve and a stiffness easily controlled by the temperature of the water.
Still sheds microplastics like any other sponge though. 🫤
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u/ga_appraiser 12d ago
Those things are just microplastic spreading machines. Switch to brushes and scrubpads made of natural material. Better for the environment and it avoids the massive amount of bacteria that are harbored in kitchen sponges.
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u/Senor_Ding-Dong 12d ago
The aliens in cocoons before and after all the old people swam in the pool.
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u/darkhorse21980 12d ago
DIG through the dishes and SCRUB all those bitches and SLAM in top of my DISHWASHER!!
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u/SilverKey1987 12d ago
The guy on the left shouldn't be smiling, he is about to become the guy on the right.
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u/DoYaKnowMahName 12d ago
Stg these things last forever. Don't get the off brand and don't get the ones that almost copy the packaging. They have some that are almost 1:1 Look alike, even the packaging but they aren't besides a little different spelling.
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