Comment on A time-honored tradition

• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tupperware is a brand. Calling all containers Tupperware is like calling all tissue paper Kleenex or all cotton swabs Q-Tips. Sure, many people do that, but it’s not correct.

  Also, Tupperware is expensive.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kleenex is actually now the correct term according to the dictionary since it’s so commonly used.

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    • Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same thing happened to Trampoline. Trampoline was the brand. The generic name is rebound tumbler.

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      • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Velcro, Hoover (in the UK), Band-Aid; there are tons of them. I’d say Tupperware is at that level, even if not officially so. I’d even argue Coke is - even if I know a palce only does Pepsi, I’m still going to ask for a Coke.

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    • Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is quite common in some languages. In Dutch they call plaster plates gyproc, tilt windows velux, a stick of glue pritt and there are countless other examples where an item is named, if not officially at least commonly, called after a brand. And of course, also kleenex.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s hilarious.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh. Even genericized, tupperware is still only containers that are intended to be reused

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahhh, genericized trademarks!

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or call acetylated salicylate an aspirin.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the Midwest, the fancy Tupperware is cool whip containers

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• Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plastic food containers that are intended to be reused are tupperware; containers that are intended to be disposable are not

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