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re: Items that are commonly referred to by a brand name instead of the actual product.

Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:10 pm to
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:10 pm to
Crock-Pot
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Post-It
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Posted by Aubie Spr96
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:17 pm to
WD40
Posted by IAmNERD
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:41 pm to
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Adjustable wrench. Wild how people don’t know this.

Pretty sure people know. They just prefer to say Crescent wrench and everyone knows what they mean.

I'll add "Allen wrench" for the OP.
This post was edited on 1/3/22 at 1:45 pm
Posted by QJenk
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:55 pm to
Lysol

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Kleenex

Wait I didn't know that wasn't the actual name.
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:55 pm to
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 2:01 pm to
Kleenex
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 2:04 pm to
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 2:07 pm to
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Posted by KingofthePoint
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 2:09 pm to
quote:

Doritos

Yeah, that doesn’t happen
Posted by USMEagles
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:00 pm to
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I didn't know there was a thing like Alka-seltzer that wasn't actually Alka Seltzer


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This post was edited on 1/3/22 at 3:00 pm
Posted by LongueCarabine
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:00 pm to
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Posted by OweO
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:02 pm to
Over the Christmas holiday I heard someone keep referring to some walmart brand tablet as an ipad.. So evidently some people refer to any tablet as an ipad.
Posted by cable
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:03 pm to
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Posted by Methuselah
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:09 pm to
It's kind of dated now, but at one time Frigidare was used pretty widespread for any kind of refrigerator.

Of course some (including me) still refer to it as an "ice box" even though the cooling is no longer provided by an actual block of ice. But that's probably for a different thread.
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Posted by arcalades
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:11 pm to
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Yeah, that doesn’t happen
you must not know many teenagers in the south, bc many teenagers do/did at one time refer to all chips as doritos
Posted by ItNeverRains
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:13 pm to
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Posted by bee Rye
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:16 pm to
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you must not know many teenagers in the south, bc many teenagers do/did at one time refer to all chips as doritos
must have just been your kids or something cause that is not a thing
Posted by MikeBRLA
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:20 pm to
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must have just been your kids or something cause that is not a thing


This. Might have been an inside joke with your kids’ circle of friends. Certainly not universal or even regional.
Posted by lshuge
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:30 pm to
Google
Posted by LSUandAU
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:33 pm to
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