Identify the brand names that have become common usage

[kairos12]

Band-Aid.

[PatrickforO]

1. Kleenex.

[Walleye]

2. Xerox

[brush]

3. Google it.

[OregonBlue]

4. In Canada, they call vacuuming Hoovering.

[RussellCattle]

7. Funny - Just yesterday my Canadian son-in-law wrote "hoovering" on their Saturday schedule.

[RussellCattle]

5. Kerosene - a brand of coal oil.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Kool-Aid

Frisbee
Velcro

Cellophane, linoleum and escalator used to be trade names but they are among many that have lost their trademark.

[lastlib]

31. Scotch tape.

[CincyDem]

8. Refrigerator.

[northoftheborder]

14. I grew up calling it a Frigidaire (that was one of the first refrigerators)

[underpants]

9. Zipper was not actually a brand name. I always had heard it was

BF Goodrich came up with once they owned the rights to the product

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. This was on Jeopardy a few night ago.

Alex Trebek said the fastener was named after the boots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper

{snip}

The popular North American term zipper, (UK zip, or occasionally zip-fastener), came from the B. F. Goodrich Company in 1923. The company opted to use Gideon Sundback's fastener on a new type of rubber boots (or galoshes) and referred to it as the zipper, and the name stuck. The two chief uses of the zipper in its early years were for closing boots and tobacco pouches. Zippers began being used for clothing in 1925 by Schott Bros. on leather jackets.

{snip}

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

16. Zipper...

Last I knew this term was not to found in Air Force logistics for reorder. Back in the day the subject item could be ordered (if you speak GI) exactly where you would think, alphabetically under "Fastener, Interlocking Slide".
I suppose today you would just order a new jacket.

And why not, Ivanka probably has them made somewhere that they are imported from with a reasonable markup.

[intrepidity]

10. Velcro nt

[IcyPeas]

11. Scotch tape

[cayugafalls]

12. Weed Eater

Also,

X-acto Knife

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Let me Bing that.

Oh, you said "common usage."

[Fla Dem]

21. Lol, they wish.

[SeattleVet]

17. Heroin

A Bayer trademarked name from way back...

[hlthe2b]

18. Taser, Thermos, safety pin, chapstick, aspirin, jeep

[Brother Buzz]

19. Formica®

[hurl]

20. Trampoline

[July]

22. Q-tip, Jello, maybe Teflon? nt

[Totally Tunsie]

23. Vaseline, pyrex, tupperware

[yellowdogintexas]

24. it drives me nuts when people call junk storage containers Tupperware

There is really no comparison.

On the other hand I will call any glass baking dish Pyrex even if it isn't

[Totally Tunsie]

25. Two degrees of separation to the name Tupperware:

My business degree is from Bryant College (now University), at one time located in Providence, RI.

Mr. Earl Tupper (yes, that one) was also a graduate of Bryant College many years before. In the late 1960s, when Tupperware was all the rage, Earl Tupper generously donated to his (our) Alma Mater 428 acres of astounding rolling hillside in Smithfield, RI, for the purpose of developing a new campus. The new school opened in 1971 and is known as Bryant University, Tupper Campus.

https://explore.bryant.edu/portal/visitcampus?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpNr4BRDYARIsAADIx9zWRFog3kKpr6Zzeh2f_28I2ZqoJYnX1dLAO6QT8lKCAIpXbLNUEEgaAkzLEALw_wcB

Tupper(ware) is a special name in this area.

[Angleae]

26. Crescent wrench. Channellock wrench.

[femmocrat]

27. WhiteOut n/t

[Leith]

28. Aspirin

Dumpster

[Kali]

29. kotex

[chia]

30. Scott Towel

[yardwork]

32. Legos

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Philips screwdriver

[backtoblue]

34. Coke

Draino
Crocs
Leatherman

[Totally Tunsie]

35. Rolodex, Keurig

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[MissMillie]

36. Jello (nt)

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