Brand names that have become synonymous with the product?

[mark414]

think:

tissue paper - kleenex
clear tape - scotch tape
um..pad of paper? - post-its

what other brand names have become synonymous to the generic product?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Jell-O

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Copies....Xerox

[skygazer]

3. Q- tips

Vaseline
Sheetrock

[mac56]

4. "Xerox"

"Cellophane" was also originally a brand name.
And down here in the South, all carbonated soft drinks are "Coke".

[Spacemom]

5. Soda is always

Coke

[CarbonDate]

11. Only in the south

But does anybody remember the generic term for a Frisbee?

[tridim]

13. Novelty flying disk?

:D

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. floppy disk?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. kotex

bandaids

[Squatch]

7. Bandaids and Q-tips

and most other Johnson and Johnson products...

Adhesive bandages - Bandaids
Cotton Swabs - Q-tips

Horse Piss - Budweiser

[ooglymoogly]

17. and fukng coors also horses piss

[Phillycat]

39. Er, were you drinking that "fukng coors" before you posted?

[ooglymoogly]

45. no, i have the flu....and am very grumpy

the coors family has given large sums of money to repugs and was involved in founding the heritage foundation along with mellon scaif.
and in my opinion was heavily involved in the skulduggery that brought bushitler to power, and on top the beer stinks

[City Lights]

18. LOL!

Horse Piss - Budweiser

Too funny. :D

[KurtNYC]

8. Fed Ex

and is that a BDP album cover (your avatar)?

1 2 3
The crew is called B D P...

[mark414]

15. you know it

by all means necessary

world wide, BDP, the FRESHEST

[KurtNYC]

32. I like that album

although it seems to scare my WASPy neighbors when played at volume.

"When you're in a club
you come to chill out,
not to watch someone blood
just spill out
That's what these other people want to see --
another race fight endlessly."

Stop the Violence. In about 4 seconds a teacher will begin to speak...

[BurtWorm]

9. BurtWorms for posts on DU

Can't think of any others...

[notadmblnd]

10. White out

xerox machines

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Tang

Popcicles

White Out

Polaroid

[rbnyc]

16. napalm (nt)

[RoeBear]

31. That reminds me...

...I'm running a little low on my Napalm brand insurgent burning gel.
Anyone know of any generic equivalent?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

58. Gasoline, soap powder and sytrofoam should do the trick

just fine.

[The Revolution]

19. Styrofoam

[DS1]

20. Walkman

[yvr girl]

21. Hoover

Walkman / Discman

[GOPisEvil]

22. Google

:-)

[livinginphotographs]

57. Good one.

It's also become a verb, which I think is pretty interesting.

[plcdude]

23. Vicks

vapo rub

[RoeBear]

24. Aspirin and Heroin

were brand names of the Bayer Company


http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blaspirin.htm
Aspirin was first sold as a powder. In 1915, the first Aspirin tablets were made. Interestingly, Aspirin ® and Heroin ® were once trademarks belonging to Bayer. After Germany lost World War I, Bayer was forced to give up both trademarks as part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

25. Tivo

no matter how much they wish it wasn't so.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

26. walkman

[iamjoy]

27. Lycra

DuPont's brand name for Spandex

[lpbk2713]

28. Vise Grips, Crescent Wrench

[hlthe2b]

29. convenience store= 711, online auction=Ebay, online bookstore= Amazon

Increasingly: latte= Starbucks (sorry independent coffee stores, but...)

smaller SUV with convertible top= Jeep

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. In the old days (my parents' and grandparents' generation)

Victrola (phonographs) and Frigidaire were used generically.

[lancdem]

33. Frisbee

Oops, somebody mentioned that. I didn't read the whole thread before posting.

[eyepaddle]

42. Hey!

As a slow-footed, cannon-for-an-arm, back-up scrub of an Ultimate Player we always called them simply "discs." The preffered brand was the disccraft disc. :)

[sbj405]

60. hey, fellow ultimate player

:hi:

[sbj405]

61. Velcro nt

[lancdem]

34. Laundromat

for coin-operated laundry. I think Dumpster's a brand name, too.

[Twillig]

35. Pop Tarts

space food sticks? :7

[lilymidnite]

36. cellophane

[zbdent]

37. Astroturf

That's actually a brand name . . .

[zbdent]

38. Fiberglass

The real name for it is "glass reinforced plastic" (from a Corvette fan)

[msanthrope]

40. Vaseline. n/t

[mr blur]

41. Biro

Which is what we call ball-point pens in the UK - the ball point pen was invented by, I believe, Lazlo Biro.

[billyskank]

49. Nah we don't

I mean, we do, but hardly anybody will say "pass me the ball-point pen, would you?" Far easier to say, "pass us a biro mate!"

[St. Jarvitude]

64. Or just "Pass us a pen, mate!"

Otherwise, you might get a lager from the Spanish guy behind you ;)

[curse10]

43. chapstick

although I've trained myself to say "lip balm"

[JVS]

44. Cola is always coke

[chuckrocks]

46. aleve

because you better a-leave it alone. har-dee-har-har

[Minimus]

47. Couch

[billyskank]

48. Rizla!

[billyskank]

50. Sellotape

[billyskank]

51. Blu-tak

[billyskank]

52. Tipp-ex

[Boswells_Johnson]

53. Trojans

[maveric]

54. Brillo = scouring pads

[yardwork]

55. legos

[livinginphotographs]

56. KY. (jelly, that is)

And Band-Aids, but I'm sure someone has mentioned that already.

[Lone Pawn]

59. Technically, heroin and aspirin.

[jmowreader]

62. Comet - cleanser

Saran wrap - plastic wrap
Baggies - plastic bags

[rug]

63. kitty litter