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

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And I do it too.

(and Im old enough to remember actual Tupperware)

That stuff would survive a nuclear war, I’m certain of it.

I'm sure someone else has mentioned jacuzzi rather than hot tub.

It happens a lot where I live, the main brand is what the items is called.

It doesn't matter what toothpaste you have, it's all Colgate. Sensodyne Colgate, maybe even Aquafresh Colgate.

Same with fizzy drinks. It's all Coke. This would be a totally normal conversation when, for eg we order a pizza:
would you like a Coke with that?
Yes please.
Okay what flavour?
Fanta please.
OK shap (which means OK sorted)

And any dishwashing liquid is called Sunlight.

I don't think they meant sellotape did they? Sticky backed plastic is a thing in its own right. I covered a bathroom unit in some clear sticky backed plastic a few years ago. It came on a roll, like cling film but there was a layer I had to peel off to expose the sticky back.

We say both Tupperware and plastic tub, none of it is actual Tupperware. I say Hoover when in fact it’s a Shark. I now ask for Pepsi Max but used to always say Coke for any brand.
I don’t even know the product name for Blu Tak.
I say Sellotape.
Another one is Guinness, that is the brand. Like asking for a Carling but meaning larger.

Great marketing campaigns! I offer up ‘jacuzzi’

I call them tubs or boxes

Nurofen instead of ibuprofen

panadol not Paracetamol

My mistake

I conflated Jeye's Fluid with J-Cloths

These things

Where the heck is this?! Who is their right mind calls toothpaste Colgate?!? 🤯

Jetski is another. Though mine actually IS a Kawasaki Jetski!

Hahaha! Soooo annoying!! “Oh are you going in your Jeep?”

“No, I’m going in my Land Rover”

the fact there’s way more Land Rovers in the UK than Jeeps makes it even more maddening 😂😂

I love that - I might start using that myself!

I also liked it when they had it on The Simpsons - one of Marge's sisters was holding a party to sell it - and they called it Supperware!

There are alot of people on here taking this TOO FAR and the brand name police will be after you…

Sticky backed plastic was clear sticky sheeting that you can cover entire sheets of paper or workbooks with. The generic name for sellotape is “sticky tape” or maybe “adhesive tape”.

Apologies if posted previously, but this list is fascinating:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks

‘Escalator’ and ‘heroin’ were once trademarks!

There was some kind of legal case (or at least a potential one) with Google, whereby they were wanting to stop it becoming a generic verb meaning 'to use any search engine on the internet'.

Although you'd think it a compliment, it's actually a big disadvantage to companies when their brand becomes the byword for any alternatives of that kind of product, as they can no longer legally protect their brand name from being freely used to refer to competitors.

At least Google do have the lion's share of the world search-engine market; but I'm not convinced that all that many people under 30 even know that Hoover is a brand name - which is reflected in their low share of the market.

Imagine having a very long-standing brand whose name people will almost universally invoke, whilst either spurning the very idea of actually choosing one of your products, or not even realising that you sell them!

We refer to all toilet paper as 'Bronco' - even though the brand disappeared a very long time ago.

We also call kitchen roll 'Burly' - after the brand that Marge Simpson uses, which doesn't actually exist in real life! If we're mentioning it to anybody else, it takes us several seconds to remember what normal people actually call it!

My workbox with all my cottons, pins, dress making scissors etc is Tupperware. My mum bought it for me when she went to a party hosted by her friend who was a Tupperware agent. I must have been about 15 so it's got to be nearly 50 years old.

We also hoover (with a Shark) and have biros and sellotape.

Touch tape or hook and loop :)

If you are going to marinate someone, I would use “the” tub, rather than “a” tub. It’s bigger.

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

Yes probably but it grates and dh says it as well (probably to annoy me😀)

like we’re in the 1950s

It wasn't!

We had Tupperware parties even into the 2000s. It was expensive though so there was more emphasis on “party”, much to the hostess’s dismay. 😂