Can you name some products that target almost everyone?

toothpaste
food
toilet paper
clothing
soap

Does EVERY culture use tp?

Band aids aka adhesive bandages.

Healthcare

Clothing footwear

water, or wardurr for you colonials.

Mobile (cell) phones
Chairs
Beds
Mirrors
Cupcakes
Anal Beads

Bread

@Ltryptophan It answers the question of “almost everyone” and “nearly everyone.”

Trivia: I’ve been to Thailand numerous times, and most people there do not use TP. They wash each time with soap and water.

A Coffee, Towel, soap, cosmetics, medicines and weight loss Products.

If there are entire countries that don’t really use a product, it doesn’t count.

@Ltryptophan I realize this is a written medium and there are no written intonations, but I would like to point out that the way you’re writing is coming across somewhat confrontational, and I’m having a hard time understanding why this question should require any amount of rancor. Again, I realize I’m probably reading intonation that’s not there, but I still feel it.

If you don’t like one item among those suggested as answers, dismiss it. If you don’t like all the answers, dismiss them all.

What’s the big deal?

And for the record, most people in Thailand do not use TP. That is not the same as all. I lived in Thailand, but I used TP. It’s supplied in all the large hotels.

Cars, bicycles

Tasers?

Spaghettios

It’s you. @Hawaii_Jake. I’m not getting that at all from @Ltryptophan.

Flour
Rice
Milk/dairy
Eggs

Gasoline?
Energy products like gas and electric are universal whether a country uses those products directly or not, because energy is used to deliver whatever products the county does use.

If we say every adult I can add to the above list:

Perfume
Deodorant
Sunglasses
Suntan lotion
Coca-cola
McDonald’s
Pens
iPad
Televisions

Things I do not use from @JLeslie‘s list: perfume, sunglasses, suntan lotion, Coke, McDonald’s, iPad or television.
Put me down for deodorant and pens.

@ibstubro That is quite possible.

@ibstubro They still target all ages for those things.

“If there are entire countries that don’t really use a product, it doesn’t count.” @JLeslie

We all know that the French don’t use deodorant. ~ ~

LOL. :)

Actually, a lot of Europeans don’t use antiperspirant. All the expensive deodorants sold with perfume and colognes (think department store not drug store) are straight deodorant.

I think it is clear that if I mentioned toilet paper in the details, I too, considered it. Therefore, any reasonable person might find that concentrating on it was to show it may not be an item that counts for almost everyone.

I think sunglasses is a good answer.

Well, why not mention the obvious, I say:

Bullets

soap
combs

Water
Clothes

Pain reliever, aka “aspirin”.

@ibstubro Not children though. Aspirin is now not recommended for children and generally not marketed to them. I also in my answer was talking about adults, so I’m not trying to be critical of your answer, but I just make the comment about aspirin mostly as a public service announcement. lol.

In stating “aspirin”, @JLeslie, I was intending to convey people’s tendency to refer to pain relievers (Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, Aspirin, etc.) as “aspirin” much like they refer to a bandage as a “Band Aid”.

^^I never do that. I never say aspirin in a generic way like Vaseline or Kleenex. It’s too important in my mind. I don’t know anyone who does use aspirin that way, but it doesn’t surprise me that some people do it.

I agree with you that pain/fever relievers are marketed to everyone.

I use “aspirin” as a generic term. At work, which is an example of where people may ask for something like that, someone (including myself) will say “Do you have any aspirin?” and then the response will be “I have Tylenol” or “I do, I have some generic” or something.

Yup. That’s exactly what I was thinking of, @jca. “I’ve got such a headache! Anyone have an aspirin?” Then people volunteer what kind of pain reliever they have on hand.

I don’t know of anyone that actually has or uses aspirin, truth told.

I’ve heard people ask for an aspirin and then I might offer an ibuprofen, but I don’t think of them as using aspirin as a generic term. I offer what I have that might be similar. I sometimes take aspirin for discomfort. I figure two birds with one stone. Pain reliever and thinner blood. I usually take ibuprofen for muscle pain though.

You can see me on Fluther on other Q’s someone suggest aspirin after an injury and I quickly write “not aspirin! Aspirin can increase bleeding.” I always thought those people just had no idea aspirin is a no no in that situation, but maybe they just were using the term aspirin genetically. Not a good idea when talking about injuries or sudden very painful from nowhere pain.

@JLeslie “using the term aspirin genetically.”
I think you meant “generically!”

Yes, I do mean generically. Thanks.