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.
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.
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, after a brand. And of course, also kleenex.
Tupperware?!? In this household we wash the plastic takeout containers and reuse them for years until the become brittle and shatter.
If you are still doing that, don’t do it. Those takeout containers leak microplastics like crazy
Don’t tupperware leak as well?
I mean, unless you use some sort of glass container or metallic, you’re eating microplastics.
Basically not / barely anything
Do you have any source for this information? If they’re plastic containers, they probably leak aa well.
I’ve heard that they do, but for certain it must be less than re-using takeout containers.
I, myself, I’ve been avoiding all plastics and using strictly glass where possible
What do you call Tupperware? I thought any plastic container for food is that. Not necessarily newly bought.
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.
Kleenex is actually now the correct term according to the dictionary since it’s so commonly used.
Same thing happened to Trampoline. Trampoline was the brand. The generic name is rebound tumbler.
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.
There are parts of the US where they use soda; parts that use pop; and parts that use coke. In the latter, the following conversation is normal:
Server: what kind of coke would you like?
Me: root beer.
Being from a “soda” location, this conversation makes my brain do a double take.
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, after a brand. And of course, also kleenex.
That’s hilarious.
Eh. Even genericized, tupperware is still only containers that are intended to be reused
Ahhh, genericized trademarks!
Or call acetylated salicylate an aspirin.
In the Midwest, the fancy Tupperware is cool whip containers
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Plastic food containers that are intended to be reused are tupperware; containers that are intended to be disposable are not
So, is this JoMiran or the micropladtics speaking?
We use butter and cool whip bowls.
Where i from, some of us call it tupperware too, every plastic container is tupperware.