I love Tupperware

[Anna N]

11 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

Yup. This one has the spiky thingie insert I remember, although I believe hers was the green yours showed. It's hard to believe my mother ever would have purchased something like that, given her thrifty nature. Maybe it was a gift.

I vaguely remember the spiky thing but for certain it was a green container. 
There was an almost cult-like peer pressure thing going on. Lots of people would like to shake off the memory of being drawn into the Tupperware world. And thrift was stressed as your iceberg lettuce would last forever if you did the right thing and stored it in the right green coloured bowl. 

[kayb]

The lids you were to “burp.”

 

The plastic tumblers with lids.

 

The way it got sticky after you washed it in hot water a gazillion times.

 

 

[Anna N]

3 minutes ago, kayb said:

The way it got sticky after you washed it in hot water a gazillion times.

I have to say that I have no recollection of them being difficult to clean. 

[heidih]

Depending on your age, I think there is  a nostalgia element.  I've heard people say things like "of course I have to serve our family recipe X in the X style/color bowl just as my mother did"

[Kerry Beal]

2 hours ago, Anna N said:

Anyone remember being taught how to knock out the core of an iceberg lettuce before storing it in their lettuce bowl?

Yup!

[Kim Shook]

This conversation is reminding me so much of my daughter talking about the MLM scams and pyramid schemes like LuLaRoe going on right now.  At least with Tupperware you got a really good (if expensive) product that seemed to last forever. 

[ElsieD]

2 hours ago, Anna N said:

I vaguely remember the spiky thing but for certain it was a green container. 
There was an almost cult-like peer pressure thing going on. Lots of people would like to shake off the memory of being drawn into the Tupperware world. And thrift was stressed as your iceberg lettuce would last forever if you did the right thing and stored it in the right green coloured bowl. 

 

I had one of those!  Anyone remember the pie-shaped holder with lid of course, that held one piece of pie?

[Anna N]

6 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

I had one of those!  Anyone remember the pie-shaped holder with lid of course, that held one piece of pie?

Ah yes! Never made much sense. Seemed to need a very specific size of pie as I recall. I know I desperately wanted the snack thingie. It would have taken up half of my fridge but oh how it called out to me. 

[BeeZee]

My Mother definitely had the iceberg lettuce holder, the spike in the bottom, the lid was domed. And I still whack iceberg lettuce on the counter to get the core out. We had a cabinet for the Tupperware and there was even a flat plastic rod that was attached to the inside of the door that had a rounded bottom...you slid or snapped the lids on to it for hanging storage (the lids had a little tab with sort of a keyhole slot).

[Kerry Beal]

The spike plus the plastic knife which prevents the lettuce from 'rusting'

[ElsieD]

1 hour ago, Kerry Beal said:

The spike plus the plastic knife which prevents the lettuce from 'rusting'

 

This one?  I now use it for cutting up stuff in non-stick pans, mostly cakes, etc.

[Kerry Beal]

I've got one of those ones too - not sure if it was tupperware or elsewhere. 

 

 

[ElsieD]

34 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

I've got one of those ones too - not sure if it was tupperware or elsewhere. 

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure I bought that when I got the lettuce keeper but that was so long ago I could well be mistaken.

 

Edited to add:  I must be  mistaken.  The one they are showing now doesn't look like mine at all, but maybe they updated it?

Edited April 13, 2023 by ElsieD (log)

[chromedome]

5 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

 At least with Tupperware you got a really good (if expensive) product that seemed to last forever. 

I think that may be one of the reasons for their current issues. When stuff lasts forever, you soon stop needing to buy any more.

[Anna N]

The Guardian collection of Tupperware stories.

 

"I have a Dutch friend whose parents emigrated to Canada after the war and died there. They had always said they wanted to be buried in the family grave in Holland and this posed a problem for my friend. So after their demise they were cremated in Canada, but since the airline did not allow urns to form part of one’s luggage, my friend put the ashes in two Tupperware receptacles, duly marked with an M and V (father in Dutch is vader) and took them onboard with her hand luggage. And so, disguised as sandwiches, they went back to their ancestors."