Concept information
Preferred term
tupperware
Definition
- Tupperware, invented in 1946 in the New England region of the United States by amateur designer Earl Silas Tupper, popularized polyethylene as a domestic plastic used for food storage and as fancy goods in the home. Using the party-plan direct-sales method, Tupperware and Tupperware parties came to define a new form of postwar sociality based around informal food consumption and conspicuous consumerism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Tupperware]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/tupperware
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