Page 2 | I like the way people still say Tupperware even though its probably not Tupperware they're using

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 11/08/2025 10:33

Tedsnan1 · 11/08/2025 10:13

I'm English. I've lived a long time and never heard anyone use 'Colgate' for toothpaste.

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Me neither!

I do use petrol instead of diesel though, I guess from calling it ‘the petrol station’.

Teflon is another brand name used (instead of polytetraflouroethylene or PTFE) although funnily enough doesn’t tend to come up in conversation!

SprayWhiteDung · 11/08/2025 10:26

An awful lot of people use 'iPhone' as a catch-all when they just mean 'a smartphone' - as though Android phones couldn't possibly achieve the same basic tasks.

It's a bit like specifically telling people that you're driving off on holiday in the BMW; or that you put your Miele washing machine on for a cycle before you left home this morning.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 11/08/2025 10:16

Tedsnan1 · 11/08/2025 10:13

I'm English. I've lived a long time and never heard anyone use 'Colgate' for toothpaste.

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I agree with you there. Toothpaste is called toothpaste.

But Vaseline is more generic to me.

5foot5 · 11/08/2025 10:16

As another child of the 60s/70s I can remember my mum and her friends having Tupperware parties. We kids loved it because there was always a nice buffet supper afterwards and if we had behaved and not made a nuisance of ourselves we could have some nice stuff from the buffet.

Never could understand as a child why they were all so interested in plastic boxes. However, as an adult I had a similar love affair with Lakeland. Oh and for a while we were keen geocachers so cunning little plastic containers became very desirable.

Tedsnan1 · 11/08/2025 10:13

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 11/08/2025 10:11

I think I’d say Vaseline for non-Vaseline branded petroleum jelly. England.

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I'm English. I've lived a long time and never heard anyone use 'Colgate' for toothpaste.

5foot5 · 11/08/2025 10:11

Pyrex. There's another!

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 11/08/2025 10:11

Tedsnan1 · 11/08/2025 10:09

Which country?

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I think I’d say Vaseline for non-Vaseline branded petroleum jelly. England.

Tedsnan1 · 11/08/2025 10:09

isthismylifenow · 11/08/2025 06:09

About half the country.

Most of whom haven't lost their mind.

See also Vaseline. Any petroleum jelly is Vaseline.

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Which country?

Tedsnan1 · 11/08/2025 10:04

soupyspoon · 11/08/2025 08:17

Oh I dont think we can allow that can we?

Surely Tupperware or Tubberware HAS to be plastic?

She is surely storing her items in 'pyrex'. Must be.

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I completely agree but she hasn't listened to me since she was about 2.
I do still try to educate her but it falls and has always fallen on, not exactly deaf, but wilful and stubborn ears.
She's a solicitor now, so I don't win very often 😅

Leilaandtheloggerheads · 11/08/2025 09:47

RainbowZebraWarrior · 11/08/2025 08:15

Stanley knife is a good one. I definiteky say that, but probably because Ive only ever bought and used that brand. Petrol isn't a brand name though. Its just an abbreviation of petroleum. Unless you mean you say it when you mean Diesel?

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I’ve driven diesel for 18 years and I’m firmly in the habit of just calling it “fuel” now 🤣

Leilaandtheloggerheads · 11/08/2025 09:46

isthismylifenow · 11/08/2025 06:09

About half the country.

Most of whom haven't lost their mind.

See also Vaseline. Any petroleum jelly is Vaseline.

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Again, where and which country?! I’ve never, ever heard this mentioned. Are you American or something?

Crucible · 11/08/2025 08:36

MagpiePi · 10/08/2025 16:57

I’d much rather Spangle than hoover.

Did Mr Spangle also invent the 1970s boiled sweets?

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Ah no. Not the same.person. Mr Spangler and his new vacuum cleaner was around the turn of the 20th century. I looked it up - 1904. Spangling has been around a long time.

MrsCarson · 11/08/2025 08:27

soupyspoon · 11/08/2025 08:21

I did not know this.

So I could have had proper tubberware all this time but instead kept buying things from BHS (RiP), Alders and then QVC

I wonder why they went out of business given theres quite a bit plastic tub market.

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You can still buy it on Amazon old stock probably.
Tupperware

Amazon.co.uk : tupperware

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?crid=8J9E103DPRWE&ds=v1%3Af79G2LECihG4H%2FjAbLe6Ol4pnY1dlT22VEYDOYSkUGY&k=tupperware&qid=1754897122&ref=sr_nr_p_123_6&rh=n%3A3146281%2Cp_123%3A560573&rnid=91049098031&sprefix=tup%2Caps%2C127&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-am-i-being-unreasonable-5389256-i-like-the-way-people-still-say-tupperware-even-though-its-probably-not-tupperware-theyre-using

MrsCarson · 11/08/2025 08:24

I say I vacuumed, and I use sticky tape I don't say Biro, I call them pens. I do call glue a pritt stick.
I have Tupperware still, they were my mothers, not bowls but containers for things like spaghetti, and rice etc. The bowls I call plastic bowls (Aldi brand) Mostly we have glass boxes for the fridge, called glass boxes by me.

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soupyspoon · 11/08/2025 08:21

HoppingPavlova · 11/08/2025 00:56

@soupyspoon (and Im old enough to remember actual Tupperware)

You do realise that’s an odd statement, given Tupperware only went out of business last year? So, ‘actual Tupperware’ has been around until extremely recently😁.

I’ve been around several decades and as well as my own Tupperware I’ve collected over that time, I also have some from my mum and MIL when cleaning their things out. I generally don’t use the old stuff for food, as standards for plastics for food have evolved over the years, but for sewing bits and bobs, odd stuff, and DH appreciates it for containing screws/washers etc.

I’ve been married a long time, and Tupperware has been the only thing that has ever threatened our marriage. I do recall words to the effect that if one more piece made its way into the house things may be over🤣. My kids grew up not knowing anything else and I pretty much have entire kitchen Tupperware sets put aside in storage for each of them when they settle in their own homes.

I did not know this.

So I could have had proper tubberware all this time but instead kept buying things from BHS (RiP), Alders and then QVC

I wonder why they went out of business given theres quite a bit plastic tub market.

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soupyspoon · 11/08/2025 08:17

Tedsnan1 · 10/08/2025 22:26

My daughters calls her glass containers Tupperware.
Makes my teeth itch.

Oh I dont think we can allow that can we?

Surely Tupperware or Tubberware HAS to be plastic?

She is surely storing her items in 'pyrex'. Must be.

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RainbowZebraWarrior · 11/08/2025 08:15

tamade · 11/08/2025 08:02

Some excellent ones and I am guilty (?) of using most of them, I'll just add my own:
Stanley knife
Petrol

Stanley knife is a good one. I definiteky say that, but probably because Ive only ever bought and used that brand. Petrol isn't a brand name though. Its just an abbreviation of petroleum. Unless you mean you say it when you mean Diesel?

Auburngal · 11/08/2025 08:05

When people edit photos or seen them edited - they say photoshopped, even though the software Photoshop may not be used

Auburngal · 11/08/2025 08:03

This thing of calling all food storage pots as Tuppaware, vacuum cleaners as hoovers - there is a term for this Generic Trademark.

tamade · 11/08/2025 08:02

Some excellent ones and I am guilty (?) of using most of them, I'll just add my own:
Stanley knife
Petrol

Auburngal · 11/08/2025 08:00

Seen it before at my last job, customer asks their OH could they get some Calpol whilst unloading. They come up with the branded version. No we buy the own label.

Ohmygodthepain · 11/08/2025 08:00

I hoover with a Dyson, use sellotape for all adhesive tape and actually do have actual Tupperware in my cupboards as old as me in daily use!
See also coke, lipsyl, tippex, poll tax, and navigating round my city using shops and landmarks that are no longer there!

Divebar2021 · 11/08/2025 08:00

I have to be honest, even as a child of the 70’s I wouldn’t know how to identify real Tupperware out in the wild. My mum didn’t have Tupperware parties she had Pippa Dee parties ( maybe we were posh and I didn’t know it ).

Auburngal · 11/08/2025 07:53

It’s the same as Post It , Sellotape and Biro when you use other brands of sticky notes, sticky tape and ball point pen.

Many years ago, the same applied to Tippex when you used Office World’s own

suburburban · 11/08/2025 07:48

TorroFerney · 11/08/2025 07:44

Does she mean a carpet sweeper, I remember my grandma having one. It wasn’t electric but it whirred and you used it like a vacuum cleaner.

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Yes it probably originated from using a carpet sweeper, I remember mum having one late 60s but she definitely uses a vacuum cleaner and she raves about her latest cordless one saying how she “swept up”