+481 There are some well known products that are so popularly distributed by one manufacturer that no matter whose product you're using you call it by the popular manufacturer. For example, sharpies, kleenexs, oreos, band-aids, etc., amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

what else would you call an Oreo....?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

there are store brand chocolate cookies with creme that are similar to oreos but can't use that name

by Anonymous 13 years ago

technically, though, Oreo is the name of the actual cookie. the other ones are just knock offs, no?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

nobody actually calls them kleenex's, and i'm pretty sure Oreos are really specific

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Really? Just about everyone around here calls them kleenex.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not me. But you're right, most people do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Post-its

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think we've established this already.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Jacuzzi (:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nutella.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dumpster. Xerox.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't know about you, but I only call Oreos, Oreos. & anything else? A knock-off.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hells yeah

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Frisbee.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wut else would you call a band-aid?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Bandage.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

weird...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Adhesive Medical Strips?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I call tissues, tissues no matter what brand they are and I call sharpies permanent markers.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Vaseline.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Whiteout. The correct term is correctional fluid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hello

by Anonymous 11 years ago

'Kleenex' are tissues, not Kleenex. And my dad works for Kleenex..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Q-tips. :3

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Windex

by Anonymous 13 years ago