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Most of the way through bag #3 and I just noticed they're not calling these "tortilla chips" anymore..

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn't this make them lose their trademark (or whatever the appropriate term is) because it goes into commom use? I swear that happened with another company

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I swear that happened with another company

It happened to a number of companies. Flip Phone, Laundromat, Trampoline, Escalator... all used to be protected names.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Cool link. Lots of surprising ones. Hovercraft? Linoleum? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

It's one of my favorite Wikipedia articles. I check it out every here and then. Glad you got a kick out of it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Flip phone is news to me, so is airfryer???????

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

There's a couple of surprising ones in there. "Dumpster" was changed for other reasons, but I didnt know it was a name brand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Not exactly, that is a thing but it would be kind of the opposite of this. Let's say a company was the first to ever make tortilla chips, and tortilla was the brand name. Then other companies started making something like tortilla chips with a different name, but then the name tortilla became so common that the first company lost its trademark so then everybody could call them tortilla chips.