Products that Have Been Around Forever Without Changing - The stuff your grandma and grandpa buy

[Grub]

So I was just doing some dishes up and scrubbing out my frying pan with one of these

And I started thinking about how S.O.S pads have been around forever and pretty much haven't changed. I remember my grandma always had a box of them in her kitchen. They're cheap, they work better than probably anything else for scouring a pan with minimal effort they've just been around forever just quietly there tucked away on the shelf at the grocery store unceremoniously in the corner underneath all the fancy new shit that doesn't work as well.

On the theme of household cleaning another couple of unchanged things that have been around forever that just work but don't really get noticed but have always just kind of been around.



And then of course there's the classic Bic Crystal pens


What other kinds of products can you guys think of that are just kind of there? Ones that have just always been around, haven't really changed, they do what they're supposed to do well and nothing more, they don't really get advertised but they're kind of just everywhere or they used to be everywhere and everyone remembers seeing them at their grandparents or something and you can still find them kicking along just fine seemingly the same as they've always been since forever.

What else like this is out there?

 

[David Brown]

was just doing some dishes up and scrubbing out my frying pan with one of these

... Not cast iron tho right? How does it do on stainless steel? I've never tried them on cookware but I've got some stubborn stains and shit on stainless steel pans

 

[Grub]

... Not cast iron tho right? How does it do on stainless steel? I've never tried them on cookware but I've got some stubborn stains and shit on stainless steel pans

I don't know about cast iron. People have special rules and shit for them probably not. I mean, it won't hurt the pan or anything but I guess you're not supposed to wash them or some shit. I dunno. I don't use any of the cast iron pans I have. My pots and pans are all stainless steel. It works great on steel. Don't use them on anything coated though. They will scratch off Teflon and ceramic coatings and things like that.

 

[The Last Stand]

The wheel.

Hard to innovate on success.

 

[Chongqing]

I think original Listerine, the brown flavor, is still the same as when it was invented.

 

[Fag Albert]

I'm still convinced that all the bars of yellow dial soap is stock they've had since the 50's .

 

[PositiveMonk]

Toilet paper:

 

[Farsided]

The paper clip.

 

[Core Theorist]

The wheel.

Hard to innovate on success.

Hey, rubber tires with air in them have gotta count for some kind of improvement, right?

 

[Antony_the_spin_god21]

I've been eating these since i was a kid whenever i visit my grandparents, they have always told me that the taste of these never changed for a long ass time.

 

[Betonhaus]

Nail clippers? Wooden cooking utensils?

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

The real OGs

 

[Rango Dango]

me

 

[Fyrnite]

Ticonderoga Pencils. There's just nothing better out there.
And when it comes to pens, it's almost hard to top the G2 Pilot of it's kind.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Clorox bleach. I won't buy any other brand.

 

[We Are The Witches]

And then of course there's the classic Bic Crystal pens

One innovation I can think of for this is that the cap has a hole, in order to reduce risk of suffocation.

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Not a brand, but sewing needles as my example.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

I've never seen these anywhere except one store. I tried them once and they are all right, but they are not even close to tootsie rolls or that strawberry one in terms of prevalence.
My contribution to this thread are those salt water candies. No one eats them and yet they are everywhere.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

While not that old in absolute terms, Koss Porta Pro headphones are essentially unchanged since they were introduced in 1984, which is an eternity by consumer electronic standards.

 

[King George III]

Ash trays and candy corn.

 

[Asian tech support]

they put it in a plastic container now tho. i still keep my metal one.