Calling Items By Their Brand Names
If you have a cold, do you reach for a tissue or a Kleenex? How about when you scrape your knee? Do you rummage around searching for a bandage or a Band-Aid?
“Everything is known as the brand. Like everything. In the U.K. we have jelly and there are many brands of it, but in America they call it Jell-O which is a specific brand. Plasters are all called Band-Aid and so on,” wrote coollikechris on Reddit.