How Tupperware Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tupperware won immediate design acclaim when it was released in 1947, but it took a pioneering female executive to make a line of plastic food storage into an icon of the American postwar boom. Learn about the surprisingly intriguing history of Tupperware

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0:50.2	Have you ever heard of Tupperware Burp?
0:54.6	Yeah, sort of.
0:55.6	I mean it doesn't sound like a burp.
0:58.8	It's just sort of like, can you emulate one?
1:00.8	Well it's just like air just sort of, it doesn't sound like a burp.
1:04.8	It sounds like a dude.
1:06.6	Yeah, something different.
1:08.0	Yeah, but I don't think you could call it a Tupperware Bart because it probably wouldn't
1:12.2	sell as much.
1:13.2	Well even a burp is a little, you know.
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