Tupperware - who'd have thought it?

I don't often admit this, but many many years ago when we were broke and contemplating me giving up work to have a family (so potentially becoming even more broke) I tried selling Tupperware on a (then) newfangled party plan scheme. I probably did it for about a year and it was an eye-opener - a window into another world of Americanised sales pitches, cheap gift incentives and coporate hoo-rah. Anyhow, for various reasons I gave it up, but it left me with a lot of Tupperware (yes, you had to buy your samples). But, see, here's the thing, I've used the stuff over the years, well, most of it anyway, and that stuff with a ten year guarantee has lasted (so far) 34 years and it still works. it hasn't cracked or warped, so proof of the pudding and all that...

A couple of years ago my little sugar container with the push button lid broke however a friend produced an unused one from the back of her cupboard. Yay!

Anyhow, today I had to throw out my pastry sheet. The two layers of laminated plastic had finally begun to separate and bubble. It's not high tech, just a plastic sheet with pre-marked circles for rolling out pastry and keeping the mess confined, but after 34 years, even though I don't do all that much baking, I find am oddly bereft. I may have to buy Tupperware again, or search for a replacement sheet of some kind.

No I'm not having a Tupperware party, that would be too silly. Lakeland Plastics, maybe?