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.
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Wot, no free tupperware for Free Gear Keir? What a shame.
@dearieme
There 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.
DJ - good point.
I had to Google 'Cruet Set'.
Then 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".
Bucko - 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
Tammly - yes they probably will linger on in the lexicon. Naff architecture could become "tupperware architecture".
Well would you look at that :-)
Canal boat purists call the occasional glass fibre reinforced plastic boats "tupperware' boats.
Doonhamer - I didn't know that, but I suppose it makes the Reliant Robin a tupperware car.
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