With Tupperware’s fate all but sealed tight, readers share their favourite memories

With Tupperware’s potential demise, Guardian readers reminisce about life’s quirks involving the famous kitchenware. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Tupperware parties hold a special kind of nostalgia, but the days of the popular tight-sealing plastic container brand may be about to end.

Shares in the Massachusetts firm, which became famous in the 1950s, crashed by almost 50% last week after it told investors there was “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern”.