[Mears]

My mother called foil “tin foil” until she died in 1995.

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[Wneighbor]

My husband still calls it tin foil. He’ll be grillin, “Sweetheart, do we have any tin foil?” I keep telling him we dont have any tin foil as I pull out the aluminum foil from the same drawer its always in. Then I point where the box says “aluminum.”

[Safetgiver]

My mother called foil “tin foil” until she died in 1995.....It ain’t?

[Windflier]

I often catch myself using idioms and phrases that are so out of date, the younger generation has never heard them.

I suppose that happens to every generation. I can recall my granddad using pet phrases that totally mystified me.