re: #302 Last Mohican

Apparently they used to make actual tin foil, out of tin. But aluminum replaced tin, starting in 1910, because aluminum is cheaper, more durable, and doesn’t impart a tinny taste to the food that it’s used to wrap.

And yet, all these years later, we still keep saying “tin foil,” even though most of us have never even seen actual tin foil.

[is there anything that Wikipedia doesn’t know, or at least claim to know?]

My mother used to refer to aluminum foil as tin foil.