General Discussion

Since the BBC is not allowed to advertise in the UK, they used to be extremely strict about not showing brand names. So, in the 70s, the children's programme 'Blue Peter' would show you how to make things at home out of things like cereal packets and condiment bottles - but they had to have tape on for TV. And while the whole country referred to 'sellotape' for what you used to stick things together, that was a trademark, so they had to say "sticky tape", although no-one else did. Eventually they got more relaxed about it.

In the UK, we've had "Estadio Azteca" or "Aztec Stadium" (didn't realise that is a brand name), but "New York New Jersey Stadium" (which is actually more informative to us - "MetLife Stadium" would mean nothing to 95%).