This week Tupperware filed for bankruptcy. There is bigger, more upsetting news around, I admit, but Tupperware, which is so iconic? Tupperware which, like Hoover or Band-Aid or Kleenex, is one of those brands that became generic and you assume will exist for ever? I suppose I’ll get over it eventually. Time is a great healer, unless it’s a terminal diagnosis. But let’s at least give it a decent send-off with a proper obituary, as follows:
“Tupperware, the product for keeping your perishables fresh, died peacefully at home this week from far cheaper alternatives being available, and a general move away from plastics, but will for ever be remembered for introducing the world to never finding the right top to fit the right bottom,