Idk how oop mixed up those green scrubby cloths with brillo pads, either. Brillo is a well known brand name here to the point of steel wool pads being known as Brillo pads more often than not, like Hoover is for vacuums.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, Brillo do make that kind of scrubbing cloth and they do call it a scouring pad. It's entirely possible that he did have an actual Brillo product that had "pad" printed on the packaging

https://www.brillo.com/cleaning-products/heavy-duty-scouring-pad

[–] unknown@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think those might be USA only products?

You know how in the USA you guys call tissues kleenex, this would be like you saying kleenex but meaning kitchen towel or loo roll or something.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago

Oh good point, I didn't think to check where they were sold. I'm also in the UK and would, when hearing "brillo pad", assume the same one you did. It's possible I heard my American ex refer to the green cloths as brillo pads at some point though