You laugh . . . but this thing is seriously, seriously awesome. It actually gets rid of food stains on the spot.

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Product Description

Tide to Go is the instant stain remover that helps eliminate many fresh food and drink stains on the spot. It works well on fresh stains, including tomato juice, ketchup, BBQ sauce, grape juice and coffee. Keep a Tide to Go in your briefcase, car, purse and kitchen - everywhere you encounter stains. Made in USA. Case Pack: 6 Units.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6761 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: Tide
• Released on: 2006-01-11
• Number of items: 6

Features

• Pack of six 0.338-ounce sticks of instant stain remover detergent (2.028 total ounces)
• Instant stain remover helps eliminate many fresh food and drink stains on the spot
• Works well on the most common stains including, tomato juice, ketchup, barbecue sauce, grape juice, coffee, wine, tea, and chocolate syrup
• Handy pen-style dispenser lets you keep one in your briefcase, car, purse and kitchen, or anywhere else you might encounter stains
• Works well on fresh stains including tomato juice, ketchup, BBQ sauce, grape juice, coffee

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Customer Reviews

Ladies - keep it handy...it really works!
This product saved me from having to leave work with an embarassing excuse. During some specific times of the month, certain unexpected things can happen if you know what I mean. ANYWAY - although the manufacturer claims it doesn't remove those kinds of stains that well; it worked VERY well. Keep one in your desks ladies...it really works.

Oh - and I've used it on coffee stains, spaghetti sauce, soda...the usual "oops" kind of stuff. Works great!

Mostly works well
I really, really wanted this to work great, since I am both a klutz who spills stuff on herself and a mom. So far I've used it on:

1. Tomato sauce - works perfectly if you catch it right away, so-so after the stain has started to set (5-10 minutes)

2. Chocolate icing - lightened the stain, but was still clearly there.

3. Baby spit-up - totally gone, but that's an easy one.

4. Soda - worked perfectly

5. Red food coloring - smaller dots totally gone, larger dot got smeared and became a nice big light pink spot, instead of a dark red medium spot :) but food coloring's always bad

I'm pretty happy with this, it works very well as long as you get to the stain immediately (meaning you notice it when you spill it!) and I will keep one in my purse and one in the diaper bag.

Does what I want it to do!
My scenario: I'm traveling down the road, eating a sandwich, and, suddenly, I drop a bit of mustard on my favorite "knock about" shirt. After uttering an expletive or two, I recall the television ad that I had seen about Tide's "pen." I immediately pulled into the local Wal****, zoomed to the cleaning supplies section, and found the product in question.

Did it work as it had on the commercial???

I'm wearing the spotless shirt as I type this recommendation!

And to liberally borrow from another company, "I don't leave home without it!"