# Xerox and other abused trademarks?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 16, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xerox-and-other-abused-trademarks/29630 "2000-08-16T22:30:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xerox-and-other-abused-trademarks/29630/41 "2000-09-20T08:45:43Z")

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Well, if gelatin is a little plate of translucent wobbly tasteless food, then that’s it. I’m not entirely uptodate on what these things technically are…

As for lemonade, well, I always wondered where all those little kids in movies carbonized their homegrown lemonade 🙂

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**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xerox-and-other-abused-trademarks/29630/42 "2000-09-20T13:43:03Z")

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If I remember from my Brit friends correctly, at least on the other side of _that_ drink the term used for our “lemonade” is “lemon squash,” but I think with rather less sugar. Same on your side of the _other_ drink?

Oh, and as is noted in another thread, our “jelly” is a subset of jam. I think our Department of Agriculture has regulations on this - “jam” has fruit pulp in it, whereas “jelly” is made from clarified juice. Neither involves gelatin.

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