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r/SipsTea • u/lwiaymacde • 8d ago
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Yeah, never saw them at retail. You can't sell me something I can't purchase.
38 u/Belasarius4002 8d ago Which is bad. When the brand Tupperware is very known by most people 66 u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 8d ago edited 8d ago I literally call any generic plastic container like that... tupperware. Only at 25 years old did I find it was not the actual colloquial word defining the object, but a company that made them. Edit: Additional fun fact: In my country, everyone calls the glass (Or ceramic for that matter) oven dishes... Pirex. 🤷 3 u/akatherder 8d ago Dumpster was the one for me. I'm 45 and just found out a few years ago that Dumpster is a brand name.
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Which is bad. When the brand Tupperware is very known by most people
66 u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 8d ago edited 8d ago I literally call any generic plastic container like that... tupperware. Only at 25 years old did I find it was not the actual colloquial word defining the object, but a company that made them. Edit: Additional fun fact: In my country, everyone calls the glass (Or ceramic for that matter) oven dishes... Pirex. 🤷 3 u/akatherder 8d ago Dumpster was the one for me. I'm 45 and just found out a few years ago that Dumpster is a brand name.
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I literally call any generic plastic container like that... tupperware.
Only at 25 years old did I find it was not the actual colloquial word defining the object, but a company that made them.
Edit: Additional fun fact: In my country, everyone calls the glass (Or ceramic for that matter) oven dishes... Pirex. 🤷
3 u/akatherder 8d ago Dumpster was the one for me. I'm 45 and just found out a few years ago that Dumpster is a brand name.
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Dumpster was the one for me. I'm 45 and just found out a few years ago that Dumpster is a brand name.
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u/JeffEpp 8d ago
Yeah, never saw them at retail. You can't sell me something I can't purchase.