What “product” do most people not realize is actually a brand name?

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What “product” do most people not realize is actually a brand name?

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  1. YourWickedUncleErnie Avatar

    I think they realize but lots of people refer to Kleenex when talking about offering a facial tissue

  2. Beautiful-Try-7333 Avatar

    Chapstick (It’s lip balm!)

  3. emcoco Avatar

    Bandaid. Also, these are called exemplars!

  4. Muttandcheese Avatar

    Velcro, Dumpster, Chapstick, Band-Aid

  5. DDD8712 Avatar
  6. Disastrous-Rush7113 Avatar

    Q-tips (cotton swabs)

  7. PresentTargetQX Avatar

    ‘ChapStick’ is actually a brand name (like Kleenex for tissues), most people just call all lip balm that. 

  8. cactusdiane Avatar

    Taser

    Bubble Wrap

  9. fermat9990 Avatar

    Scotch tape

    Vaseline

  10. Puzzled-Chair3922 Avatar

    Valium, velcro, hoover

  11. DBrave24 Avatar

    Google 😉

  12. Onigato Avatar

    The Dipsty Dumpster Company has entered the chat.

  13. sympathyformissv Avatar

    In the US it’s more common.

    Brand names not protected or used anymore by the company’s. Gasoline, Then after a world war Bayer lost the rights to Aspirin and Heroin.

    Brand names companies still own : Advil, Tylenol, Valium, Viagra .ect (when they first come out or become popular meds usually have a number of years until generics come out and you won’t notice a difference)

    Same with Q tips and bandaids

    Xerox really pisses me off as when someone first told me it sounded like an alien, but it was just a photocopier..

    Probably many others like a stupid amount.

  14. lestairwellwit Avatar

    Dry Wall

    Aspirin

    Weedeater

  15. mountainmanned Avatar

    Tupperware
    Ziplock

  16. Delicious-Paint-3447 Avatar

    Kleenex, q-tip, javex

  17. Imperium-Claims Avatar

    Not sure if this counts but Super-hero

  18. GridlockRose Avatar

    Velcro really caught me off guard.

    The generic product is called “hook and loop”.

  19. Zachy2244 Avatar

    Fridge. Comes from Fridgidare

  20. datPandaAgain Avatar

    Lego.

    My soul and sphincter goes into a spasm every time I hear Americans call them ‘Legos’.
    They are Lego bricks.
    You get Lego slippers if you stand on them.
    We create a Lego model.

    I guess I’m just old school.

  21. w_benjamin Avatar

    These were brand names

    Jello

    Frisbee

    Hula Hoop

    Lego

  22. Practical-Storage817 Avatar

    Frisbee

    Kleenex

    Cool whip

    Craisins

  23. FilmLow2881 Avatar

    For the european mechanics. Bahco

  24. NecroJoe Avatar

    Laundromat

    Taco Tuesday (OK, so not so much a “product”…)

    Hovercraft

    Astroturf

    Dremel

    Sawzall (though often mis-said/written as “Sawsall” all the way down to “zaw zaw”)

    Skil saw (though often mis-said/written as Skill saw)

    Airfryer

    Yo-Yo

    Dry Ice

    Thermos

    Frisbee

    Jumbo Tron

    Not as common anymore, but “Cuisinart” used to just refer to food processors…I think they diluted their own brand by diversifying, and not as much by other brands making food processors. I own one Cuisinart product, and it’s a Griddler panini press/griddle/waffle iron thing.

    I once heard someone say they took a “Lyft Uber.” I would have given them the benefit of the doubt because they were drunk, but they were also very, very stupid, even when sober.

  25. aarondigruccio Avatar

    I’m waiting for someone to pop into this thread and tell me that Hot Dog™ is the brand name, and the generic is something like “long-form amalgameat.”

  26. lnoiz1sm Avatar

    Pogo.

    I thought, it’s just a few people doing crazy things inside a moshpit.

  27. Fast-Snow-7414 Avatar

    Jacuzzi— they’re always hot tubs to be. I was wrong.

  28. Martipar Avatar

    Medicine, specifically in the USA.

    I used to be a first aider here in the UK, once this American lady came in asking for a Band-Aid, partially due to her thick accent and partially as we was mostly saying “Band-Aid” over and over again it took us, yes more than one qualified first aider, to understand she wanted a plaster. I’ve also heard shop assistant being verbally abused in non-US countries for not having Advil or Tylenol in stock. I suspect this is party due the US healthcare system and medicine advertising.

    Here in the UK you often won’t get the same brand of medication each time on prescription. I don’t pay much attention to exactly who made it but for the the last three months my Omeprazole has come from three different manufacturers. The same goes for paracetamol, people won’t often get a specific brand, they’ll get the basic shop brand. people are just more educated about their medication here, they know the name of the medicine rather than the brand. It the same in the rest of Europe too.

    Also in countries that aren’t New Zealand or the US direct advertising for prescription medication is banned, doctors prescribe a medication and pharmacists dispense it, they aren’t subject to people saying “I saw an advert for medicine X on the television, I have those symptoms, can I have drug X please? They are given what they need, not what they want.

  29. embo028 Avatar

    Crescent wrench

    Allen keys

  30. kosmix24 Avatar

    ziploc bags

  31. Mortegris Avatar

    Adding a bilingual one here:
    The common Japanese word for staplers is ホチキス (Hotchkiss) which is in fact a brand of stapler.

  32. bellarainyday Avatar

    Lego, many people use it as generically for any building blocks

  33. RemarkableMap582 Avatar

    Gas, as in what you put in the car…

  34. a-borat Avatar

    Scotch Tape.

    And in brasil it’s Durex.

  35. The_Hydro Avatar
  36. PandorasChalk Avatar

    Bit niche but solid surface countertops are often just called “Corian” which is the DuPont brand of solid surface material.

  37. gen-x-shaggy Avatar

    Band-aid edit: my bad “medical adhesive strips”

  38. AndHeShallBeLevon Avatar

    Xerox is, ironically, the original example.

  39. erigual Avatar

    Jello! (Jell-O)

  40. padwello Avatar

    Whipper snipper

  41. relevant__comment Avatar

    WiFi

    It’s not an acronym for “wireless fidelity”. It was created by a marketing firm to be a catchy and memorable term for the IEEE 802.11 standards.

  42. 406highlander Avatar

    Portacabin

    They make those temporary, movable out-buildings that you see in industrial sites.

  43. UsuallyAnnoying324 Avatar

    Viagra
    The real medical name is Mycoxaflopin.