Example: Betty Crocker products.
Goodyear Tires (the company was named after Charles Goodyear, who invented the process for the vulcanization of rubber)
Firestone Tires
Michelin Tires
Gates Rubber Company
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Automobiles
DeSoto cars
Lay’s Potato Chips
Nestlé Foods
Singer Sewing Machines
Hershey’s Chocolates
Wendy’s fast food
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee foods
Famous Amos Cookies
Claymore anti-personnel mines
Gatlin (Machine)gun
Wilson sporting equipment
Johnson & Johnson products
Philips screwdriver
M-1 Garand Rifle
Mason jars
Smucker’s jellies and jams
Gaines Burgers dog food
Lincoln Logs children’s toy building set
Higgins Boats
Duncan Hines cooking products
Betty Crocker cooking products
Sara Lee snacks
Little Debbie snack cakes
Gerber’s Baby Foods
The Dewey Decimal System
Otis Elevators (a Black man)
Pullman Railroad Cars
Murphy beds (the type that folded up into the wall for storage when not being used)
Picket fences (named after a general in the US Civil War who capitalized on a particular type of defense that hindered and/or stopped attacking enemy troops)
Boeing Aircraft
Wilkerson Razors
Norell Razors
Bunson burners
Lazy Susan dining table implement
Bobby pins
Bobby soxers
Remington Firearms
Colt Firearms
Buck knives
Bowie knives
John Wayne (nickname of a can opener used by GIs to open K-Ration cans)
Oscar Meyers hot dogs
Parker Brothers board games
Milton Bradley board games
Mattel Toys
Hasbro Toys
Barbie dolls
Holly Hobbie toys
Donald Duck orange juice
Peter Pan peanut butter
Teddy bears
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls
Del Monte vegetables
Birdseye Frozen Vegetables
Doan’s Painkilling pills
Budweiser, Schlitz, Michelin, Pabst, Heineken, Anheuser Busch, Coor’s, Samuel Adam’s, Miller’s, etc. beers
Dr. Scholl’s footcare products
Dr. Pepper soda
Doc Martin shoes
Mae West life preservers
Thompson submachinegun
Farmer John meat products
Panama Jack
Jack-in-the-Box
Graham crackers
Ike jackets
Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn
Mary Jane shoes
MacAlister tractors
McCormick reapers
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
John Deere farm equipment
Jolly Roger candies
Prince Albert tobacco
Bausch & Lomb optical products
Reese’s candies
Chanel perfumes
Vidal Sassoon hair care products
Esteé Lauder perfumes
Giorgio Armani products
Louis Vuitton products
Michael Kors products
CW Post cereal products
Johnny Walker, Tom Collins, Bloody Mary, Shirley Temple, Jack Daniel’s, etc. drinks
Land cameras
Captain Crunch, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Tony the Tiger cereals
Mr. Peanut snacks
The Braille reading system
Mackintosh raincoats
Lewis gun
Browning Automatic Rifle (B.A.R.)
Gray’s Anatomy textbooks
Black’s Law reference books
Roget’s Thesaurus
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary
Baskin-Robbins ice cream
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream
Edison electric power companies
Parker pens
Sherman-Williams paints
Currier and Ives housewares
Kay’s jewelry
Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
Petri dish
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Orville Redenbacher popcorn.
Marie Callender frozen foods.
Kate Spade bags.
Coco Chanel.
Mrs. Butterworth.
And my favorite:
It’s THRIFTY Ice Cream. She is ThriftyMaid.
Try to keep up.
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Randy D 