Do you remember Tin Foil?

Question

I remember my Elders always refering to it as tin foil.
I have refered to it as aluminum foil since I have been grown. I just didn't realize that there was a difference. You?

The first mass-produced and widely used metal foil was made from tin. Tin foil was replaced by aluminum foil in 1910.

Answer 1

I thought it was just a southern thing. but like my grandma before me I still call it tin foil about 80% of the time. Tissues are kleenex, sanitary pads are kotex, all sodas are coke, coolers are often ice chests, refridgerator is an ice box.

Answer 2

Don't know that I've ever seen tin foil, but the aluminum stuff has been tin foil to me since dirt was invented.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Metal foils of other bases than aluminum tended to be toxic and often reacted to the food they were intended to protect. There hasn't been any tin foil in many generations and it's unlikely anyone around now truly remembers using it in a domestic setting. It hung around in industrial use until WWII.

Answer 5

No one in my family called it tin foil. Just foil, and I had old Parents.

Answer 6

Yep. Sometimes I still call it that although It quit being tin foil half a century before I was born. I sometimes call the 'tin cans', too. Oopsy.

Answer 7

Have you ever seen it made? It's a fascinating process. There is a show on cable called How It's Made and that's where I saw it. It is truly amazing how a large hunk of aluminum turns into a mega-thin slice of foil.

Answer 8

I have always called it tin foil. I even had it on my grocery list today ........ bread, pickles, tin foil, yogurt.

Edit: Now that I look at my list, it seems a bit odd!

Answer 9

Well, you live and you learn. I grew up calling it tinfoil, too, and eventually that evolved into calling it by its brand name

(Reynolds was another Richmond-based company, but Alcoa swallowed it. They were smart enough to keep the original name on the aluminum foil, though.)

I never knew that there was a foil actually made of tin.

Yay, Plum! That's RICH.

Answer 10

My grandmother always called it tin foil, so sometimes I call it that too. Never really thought about it though lol. My grandmother wasn't alive in 1910, so it must have been passed down from her mom saying that too!