• Jo Miran
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    5810 months ago

    Tupperware?!? In this household we wash the plastic takeout containers and reuse them for years until the become brittle and shatter.

    • @Contramuffin
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      3010 months ago

      If you are still doing that, don’t do it. Those takeout containers leak microplastics like crazy

      • @[email protected]
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        1510 months ago

        Don’t tupperware leak as well?

        I mean, unless you use some sort of glass container or metallic, you’re eating microplastics.

        • @jose1324
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          1110 months ago

          Basically not / barely anything

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            Do you have any source for this information? If they’re plastic containers, they probably leak aa well.

        • @Contramuffin
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          210 months ago

          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

    • MxM111
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      1710 months ago

      What do you call Tupperware? I thought any plastic container for food is that. Not necessarily newly bought.

      • Jo Miran
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        2710 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1210 months ago

          Kleenex is actually now the correct term according to the dictionary since it’s so commonly used.

          • @[email protected]
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            1710 months ago

            Same thing happened to Trampoline. Trampoline was the brand. The generic name is rebound tumbler.

            • TWeaK
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              910 months ago

              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.

              • Troy
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                710 months ago

                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.

                • ALQ
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                  510 months ago

                  Being from a “soda” location, this conversation makes my brain do a double take.

          • @[email protected]
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            10 months ago

            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.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Plastic food containers that are intended to be reused are tupperware; containers that are intended to be disposable are not

    • @Siegfried
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      1010 months ago

      So, is this JoMiran or the micropladtics speaking?

    • @BoxerDevil
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      910 months ago

      We use butter and cool whip bowls.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      510 months ago

      Where i from, some of us call it tupperware too, every plastic container is tupperware.