Fans mourn popular kitchen brand famous for its parties after cheap copycats - beloved by Gen-Z - fuel its demise
The news that cult kitchen brand Tupperware might be heading for the great storage container in the sky has sparked a wave of nostalgia-tinged mourning on social media.
The iconic American brand known the world over for its plastic food containers, is on the brink of bankruptcy, with spiralling debts of more than $700 million, according to Bloomberg.
Fans mourn? Cult? Iconic?
Nope, just headline writers. I remember a Tupperware cruet set my parents acquired in the sixties - I think it was the sixties but it may have been the fifties. That cruet set never looked right even to my young eye.
I always thought Tupperware had an amazing knack of looking grubby as soon as it had been used a few times. Especially sandwich boxes - and cruets. The grubby look was permanent too, no amount of washing would clean it up so that it actually looked pristine.
Wot, no free tupperware for Free Gear Keir? What a shame.
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ReplyDeleteThere are no leftovers to save after a Labour government.
dearieme - it is a shame, maybe a maker of expensive biodegradable picnic ware will step in.
ReplyDeleteDJ - good point.
I had to Google 'Cruet Set'.
ReplyDeleteThen I had to add the word Tupperware, to see the plastic version. I see your point...
Even if they disappear, they will linger on in the lexicon. Grey low cloud level - "It's a tupperware day".
ReplyDeleteBucko - I Googled it too and there is an example of ours in the Museum of Design in Plastics. https://www.modip.ac.uk/artefact/aibdc-002708
ReplyDeleteTammly - yes they probably will linger on in the lexicon. Naff architecture could become "tupperware architecture".
Well would you look at that :-)
ReplyDeleteCanal boat purists call the occasional glass fibre reinforced plastic boats "tupperware' boats.
ReplyDeleteDoonhamer - I didn't know that, but I suppose it makes the Reliant Robin a tupperware car.
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