yum... lamp oil taste with a strawberry after taste!

It's good advice!!!!

Also do not use cranberry juice in your lamp.

I know someone who drank clear lamp oil thinking it was water. They had had a bit of alcohol...

To be fair, I was sober and had walked by the bottle on the counter 4 or 5 times, thinking it was water too.

I'm not sure what the best strategy is, but saying lamp oil in reasonably sized print is a start.

I have three rules with lamp oil:
1) Keep the lamp oil under the sink.
2) Keep the lamp oil in the original bottle.
3) Don't drink it.

Voila! These easy rules I live by have prevented me from mistaking my blue lamp oil for powerade or other blue drinks. And when the power goes out, there's always a lamp ready to be fueled up.

Lamp oil, rope, bombs?

How much lamp oil is dangerous?

Does it taste bad enough that you would have to be deliberately trying to drink lamp oil to drink enough lamp oil to harm yourself?

It's simple natural selection, folks. If someone is, well, if someone is to drink lamp oil and die, whether intentionally or not, that is their fate and we need to just accept it and move on.

does it have a fowl smell that you'd notice before drinking?

i really have no idea. it could be odorless, but it seems like the type of thing that may have a poor smell

Okay, helpful hint. Duly noted. Now, what about the electric fence? Should we, or should we not, whiz on it?

Regardless of people's stupidity, the problem is companies bottle products in containers that make them look like juice, etc. Fabulouso cleaner comes to mind..

My friends have used lamp oil to blow fire when we run out of Everclear. Works, but I hear it tastes terrible.

Wait, people still use lamp oil?

Considering the taste of other oils, I just can not imagine somebody of an adult age and sound mind actually chugging back a bottle of lamp oil. That leaves children and the feable or impaired.

Ok, now we know to keep lamp oil out of the reach of children and feable.

Impaired can drink all they want. Helps eliminate the bad genes.

At a local grocery store, I once noticed they had put a pallet of liquid solvents (like pine sol, but various colors and scents) in a very bad place. Immediately left was fruit juice. Immediately right was bottled soda pop in various flavors and colors. Directly above the solvents was rice milk. On either side of the rice milk were kool-aid powder and iced tea.

Nobody at the store could understand why I thought this was incredibly bad product placement. Cleaning supplies colored and scented like beverages...surrounded on all sides by beverage products. But it was over five weeks before the store moved the display.

Many lamp oils smell sweet. It seems every year or so a kid is on the news dead or dying from drinking it (from a lamp).

@MBZ32: I agree; whoever came up with the Fabuloso packaging wasn't thinking clearly:

Hey! Why can't I insert a picture?

I have a lot of friends who breathe fire.

No, really - in the social circles I used to run in, about half of everyone tried it out at some time.

You can breathe fire with any number of substances. Everclear works, but it's also pretty runny and can light your face on fire pretty easily.

The most popular firebreathing product of choice - at least among my friends - is lamp oil.

Now, nobody drinks it. But they do fill their mouths with it. And I could see a circumstance where they might accidentally.

I dunno, that's the best I can come up with.

@44 in a Row: If you must, I would suggest standing a few feet away. I wouldn't though. :)

@no.no.notorious: To answer your question, no it does not smell like chicken.

@Mr_Magoo: You can insert a picture. Just follow these directions: [lifehacker.com] For all you Mexican cleanser-lovers out there:

@no.no.notorious:

does it have a fowl smell that you'd notice before drinking?

No, it doesn't smell or taste like chicken. It smells more like kerosene or diluted charcoal lighter.

@no.no.notorious:

People also need to take into consideration that some people have a lack of the ability to smell things.

Seriously though, unless you blind and can not smell, and your taste buds are shot, at some point you should know its lamp oil, in the least, spit it out...

Isn't there a child proof lid on the containers? Wow! That bottle of Fabuloso really looks like juice.

Helps with fiber irregularity

no sympathy. The first step in my plan for Eden is to remove all warning labels to thin out the population. Not that the really stupid ones pay attention anyway but the only reason they have warning labels such as this is because some jackass did something really stupid and either lived to sue or had one of their stupid relatives sue after death. Hemmorhoid cream should NOT need a "do not ingest" warning let alone Lamp oil. The name alone should stand as directions that the product is intended for lamps only.

While I'm on the subject, there shouldn't be any seltbelt laws either. Stupidity, followed closely by greed, is the leading cause of suing.

"well if only someone had told my kid they needed to wear a seltbelt then they wouldn't be in a coma. Someone other than me is to blame!"

No wonder my Cosmos have been tasting weird lately...

In the peoples defense; they thought that, like Olive Oil, they squeezed small lamps of their juices and were trying to avoid trans-fat laded oils.

I only use 100% organic whale oil in my lamps. It's both flammable AND delicious!

Damn, what a handy piece of information. I suppose tomorrow the Consumerist will tell me running a meth lab out of my guest bedroom is probably hazardous to my health.

Personally, I blame American Airlines for making the lamp oil look like cranberry juice.

And Bank of America too.

But the real question is, were they doing it to try to get high?

/doesn't know if lamp oil gets you high, but some Darwin Award candidate may think it does...

Here's an idea:

What if all the manufacturers adapted the same universal standard when packaging potentially poisonous fluids? For example, using triangular shaped bottles for things like lamp oil. That way, everyone would immediately know that it wasn't a drink.

They do something similar with road signs. See how well that works?

thats a tough one alright. cant fault the lampoil guys for that warning i guess.

might not look very fashionable on the bottle but they should put some big labels on it for hazourdous liquids and such.

what is lamp oil? Do you mean kerosene? Because I remember back in the day kerosene came in only a green color when it wasnt in the regular clear color (no color).

Maybe it's time to start making all drinkable products one color, and all non-drinkable products another. Gin, diet coke, milk, water - these would be green. Anti-freeze, lamp oil, red bull - these would be red.

Looks like cherry-flavored gasoline. Yummy!

@madog: I completely agree. After going to EMT school and seeing what happens to you if you don't wear a seatbelt and LIVE I have never failed to buckle up.
I completely agree with you that if people decide they don't want a face and don't want to wear their seat belt or feel the need to drink something labeled LAMP OIL...be my guest.

@ChuckECheese: Mmm, pour up a big pitcher for the neighborhood!

whatever happened to mr. yuck stickers??!? mr. yuck would've told you not to drink lamp oil!

Let me add my "Gee what an insightful story" comment to get my post count up as well.

Personally, I sautee in olive oil, but to each his own.

All these warnings and cautionary tales are preventing Darwin from doing his work.

We really need to weed out the stupid in the gene pool.

@mac-phisto

I was just thinking about Mr. Yuck, but you beat me to it.

Didn't they used to use a skull and cross bones for poison stuff?

Never-mind. People would probably think it was pirate juice or something, and drink it.

Also, do not attempt to eat the lamp that contains said lamp oil.

That would also be bad.

I didn't realize there was even a product designed to lubricate lamps. Is there a problem with lamps getting dry and somehow losing their lighting function? Or do lamps just like the taste?

I was at walmart the other day with my wife and I saw bottles of cleanser that looked like sport drinks (the colors were simiilar and th epackaging was like a sport bottle. I told my wife some kid is gonna drink that stuff, not sure why they packaged it like that.

@madog: Tone it down a bit.

@mac-phisto: Don't know about you but it instantly reminds me of Green Jelly.

(Obey The Cow God, BTW)

"This cleaning product looks just like the cheese you put on spaghetti!"

I'm pretty sure a five year old can tell the difference between cleaning product and cheese. By that age, he/she should be able to read the word "cheese" off a can. At least my family doesn't use either product.