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Tupperware After Tomato Sauce refers to the stubborn stain tomato sauce leaves behind after being stored in Tupperware. This truism has been commented on since Tupperware was invented but since then axiom spread online the stain has been compared to other orange or red colored people or things beginning in 2018.

Origin

On February 17th, 2009, Twitter user @EffingBoring^[1] was one of the first to joke about tomato Tupperware stains online by tweeting, "America the great melting pot: I'm Italian, he's South Asian, and all of our Tupperware is stained by either tomato sauce or curry" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 20 likes in 10 years.

Spread

After 2009, Twitter users continued to tweet about stubborn tomato Tupperware stains. On January 25th, 2017, Twitter user @EDIBLU^[2] tweeted, "Tomato sauce = Tupperware herpes" (shown below).

On November 18th, 2018, Twitter user @Ryan_DBurgess^[3] compared Donald Trump's orange complexion to tomato Tupperware stains (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 10,300 likes and 6,800 retweets in a year. On April 15th, 2019, Redditor LetsEatAPerson posted a Maybot image to r/memes^[4] with the caption "me: enjoying how clean my new Tupperware looks/ leftovers with tomato sauce:" (shown below, right).

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