Anyone can think of other examples? Note that we’re not looking for simple misnomers like pencil lead, the things must have been made of the stuff they’re named after at some point!

• marbles
• compressed air (no doubt somebody has used compressed air for what can dusters are used for nowadays, but selling it in cans has probably never been economically viable)

Sidewalk chalk isn’t made of chalk anymore?

TIL: It’s made of calcium sulfate, i.e. gypsum, the same stuff that goes into drywall, as opposed to calcium carbonate, i.e. rock chalk.

Half of them don’t translate to europe/german language.