While waiting at the Whole Foods yesterday, I popped my hood and cleaned all the leaves out of the gutter below the windshield. My fingers were filthy, so I got out the bottle of Fast Orange hand cleaner I've been carrying around from car to car for quite a while.
First surprise: Instead of being a paste, it had turned to liquid -- it looked and smelled like a cheap orange juice as it emerged from the bottle. It still cleaned my hands, but it was a juice now. I glanced at the label and got my second surprise. Copyright 1999! True, that does not mean I bought the bottle in that year, but it's going to be close. I've been carting this around at least since I had the '86 W126, 1999 to 2004.
Third surprise: On the label it proclaims "Now with Corn Huskers Lotion." I remember ads for that, but is it still around?
At Walmart this morning I picked up a new bottle of Fast Orange. Half the label is in Spanish, of course. But the Corn Huskers text is gone, and now I'm supposed to be impressed with something called MicroGel Technology. Copyright 2019 on this one. Tech Marches On.
I'll put the new bottle into my kit bag in the Buick's trunk, of course, but is it possible the old stuff is still usable for hand cleaning at home?
First surprise: Instead of being a paste, it had turned to liquid -- it looked and smelled like a cheap orange juice as it emerged from the bottle. It still cleaned my hands, but it was a juice now. I glanced at the label and got my second surprise. Copyright 1999! True, that does not mean I bought the bottle in that year, but it's going to be close. I've been carting this around at least since I had the '86 W126, 1999 to 2004.
Third surprise: On the label it proclaims "Now with Corn Huskers Lotion." I remember ads for that, but is it still around?
At Walmart this morning I picked up a new bottle of Fast Orange. Half the label is in Spanish, of course. But the Corn Huskers text is gone, and now I'm supposed to be impressed with something called MicroGel Technology. Copyright 2019 on this one. Tech Marches On.
I'll put the new bottle into my kit bag in the Buick's trunk, of course, but is it possible the old stuff is still usable for hand cleaning at home?