Trademark Security Warning, Styrofoam Misconception.

WARNING WARNING WARNING!

Put down that formerly styrofoam cup of coffee and pick up that generic foam cup of coffee! Silence your tongues, they speak not what it means! It is a verbal revolution against those who would dare whisper a trademarked name to inappropriate ends! Not since "Duck Tape" brand Duct Tape or "Band-Aid" brand sticky bandages with a little cushion for your cut in the middle has there been such an uproar.

On my journey through the internets I've not only found the correct spelling of the word "styrofoam" but I have found the company that's had to bear the burden of their product's name being spewed over foam less worthy of the label. I think I'll just let the words speak for themselves as I have no words to lament my sadness of the injustice brought to this nobel unrecycleable product!

http://www.dow.com/styrofoam/what.htm

Invented by Dow more than 50 years ago and identified worldwide by the distinctive Blue** color, STYROFOAM* products are the most widely recognized brand in insulation today. In the early 1900s, The Dow Chemical Company invented a process for extruding polystyrene to achieve a closed cell foam that resists moisture. Recognizing its superior insulating properties, buoyancy and "unsinkability," it was originally adopted in 1942 by the Coast Guard for use in a six-man life raft. That was the start of many other wartime applications by the Coast Guard and Navy.

Today, the Dow STYROFOAM brand includes a variety of building materials (including insulated sheathing and housewrap), pipe insulation and floral and craft products. But there isn’t a coffee cup, cooler or packaging material in the world made from STYROFOAM.
These common disposable items are typically white in color and are made of expanded polystyrene beads. They do not provide the insulating value, compressive strength or moisture resistance properties of STYROFOAM products. In order to protect the Dow trademarked name “STYROFOAM”, such other material should be referred to by the generic term “foam.”

I am not a peg. I do not need a hole.

currently: outraaaaaged!!!!

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