Pyrex Name Challenge with Returning Guest Rob

DISCLAIMER: Please note that I use collector's nicknames for some of the dishes and not the official names they were produced with.

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Bex Scott brings back a fan-favorite guest from Season One. In Season One he was called Rex but his actual name is Rob, Bex’s husband. Rob returns to test his Pyrex knowledge (and how well he listens to his wife talk about her Pyrex collecting) by naming Pyrex patterns shown to him. How well does Rob do? Is he a Pyrex savant? Or is he just winging it here? See how you do against Rob by following along with the photo links in the Resources section. 

Rob’s final score is one. One point. Which one did he get right? No spoilers here. Lessons were learned in this episode. Rob definitely believes he’s better at naming Pyrex patterns than Pyrex was. The 60s and 70s were a wild time for Pyrex colors. Bex throws out some 14-year-old slang terms. Rob learns what a hugger is. And we all learn what the Pyrex names really are for some very interesting and classic patterns. Test your own knowledge along with Rob. And contact Bex to let her know what you think of Rob’s names. 

Resources discussed in this episode:

• Pyrex One Rob’s name: Primary Colors Plus an Attaboy
• Pyrex Two Rob’s name: Alternating White Wine Red Wine Vine Set
• Pyrex Three Rob’s name: 70s Throw Up Fade
• Pyrex Four Rob’s name: Grenaded Garden
• Pyrex Five Rob’s name: Viney Vinny’s Knobby Dish Delight
• Pyrex Six Rob’s name: Viking’s Breadbasket
• Pyrex Seven Rob’s name: MagnaDoodle Acid Trip
• Pyrex Eight Rob’s name: Hypnotic Salad Bowl
• Pyrex Nine Rob’s name: 70s Jello Fruit Salad Thingamabobber Calls To You
• Pyrex Ten Rob’s name: Gandalf’s Garden
• Pyrex Eleven Rob’s name: Blood Red Christmas Doves Sharing a Pomegranate
• Pyrex Twelve Rob’s name: Cretaceous Era Battle for Middle Earth

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Transcript

Bex Scott: [00:00:02] Hey everybody, it's Bex Scott and welcome to the Pyrex with Bex podcast where, you guessed it, I talk about vintage Pyrex, but also all things vintage housewares. I'll take you on my latest thrifting adventures, talk about reselling, chat with other enthusiasts about their collections, and learn about a bunch of really awesome items from the past. Subscribe now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you love listening to podcasts so you don't miss a beat. Hey everybody, this is Bex Scott and you are listening to the Pyrex with Bex podcast. And on today's episode, I am bringing back one of your most favorite guests, formerly known as Rex in season one of the podcast. It is my husband, Rob. Welcome, Rob.

Rob: [00:00:48] Thanks for having me back. I'm really excited.

Bex Scott: [00:00:50] It feels like a very long, hard road getting to this recording, because we just spent the last half hour trying to fix my mic, and thank goodness that your mic wasn't working because you were playing jeopardy music in the background, trying to provoke me.

Rob: [00:01:05] It was much needed. There was so much suspense.

Bex Scott: [00:01:09] There was suspense if we were going to get this done. If, yeah, just all the suspense. So suspenseful that I'm lost for words.

Rob: [00:01:18] I can see that.

Bex Scott: [00:01:19] That made no sense. Anyway, back to the episode. Today, I thought it would be fun to play a little game with Rob to see just how well he knows his Pyrex patterns, and I've gone in and selected 12 different Pyrex patterns. I'm going to show him the picture. And because all of you wonderful people can't see what I'm showing Rob, I'm going to describe it first, and he'll give his best guess as to what the pattern is. So it's going to be a lot of learning together to see just how much Rob pays attention to me and to my love of Pyrex. Here we go. So I invite all of you to join along and make your best guess and see just how good you are with your patterns as well. I know that going through this, it was very enlightening because Pyrex didn't come up with a lot of unique, exciting names for some of their patterns and their dishes. So you'll realize that as we go through some of these. So I figured it would be nice to start off easy, give Rob a little bit of a break on his first go.

Rob: [00:02:34] And you'll understand that by asking me these questions that I should have been chosen by Pyrex to name these patterns.

Bex Scott: [00:02:43] I hope so, maybe the names you give will be so amazing that collectors around the world will just adopt them.

Rob: [00:02:50] There'll be a fee for that, but no problem.

Bex Scott: [00:02:53] Okay, we'll see how great they are, how creative you're feeling. Okay, here's the first set. So for those of you listening right now, it is a four piece mixing bowl set starting with blue, going to red, then green, then yellow. Rob, what is the name of this bowl set or pattern?

Rob: [00:03:17] I would call it Primary Colors, plus an Attaboy. Because the green is not a primary color. So you have the primary colors plus the attaboy.

Bex Scott: [00:03:31] You would be correct.

Rob: [00:03:33] Oh, it's called with the attaboy. Nice.

Bex Scott: [00:03:35] Well. No, but I like that rendition better than just the plain old Primary. So. Good job. 1 out of 12.

Rob: [00:03:44] Oh, it's called Primary. Okay.

Bex Scott: [00:03:45] Yeah. You're winning so far. Next up, we have a lot of this in our house, I'm looking at it right now. Okay. For everybody out there. It is a Cinderella Bowl set, and it goes from white to pink to white to pink, and it has some nice little without giving anything away foliage vine situations on it. Rob, what do you think this set pattern is called?

Rob: [00:04:16] I have to call it the Alternating White Wine Red Wine Vine set.

Bex Scott: [00:04:29] That's quite the name.

Rob: [00:04:31] Well, yeah. Like I said, I should have been hired for this job.

Bex Scott: [00:04:35] At first, I thought you were going to say wine spritzer.

Rob: [00:04:38] Well, yeah. Well, if you smash them, you could make a spritzer. It'd be kind of pink.

Bex Scott: [00:04:44] It's a spritzer. Okay, this is Gooseberry.

Rob: [00:04:47] Oh I was close.

Bex Scott: [00:04:48] You couldn't have been further away, but that's okay. It has a little, it's hard to see, but there's little gooseberries on there. They kind of look like onions, to be honest. That's okay.

Rob: [00:05:02] I couldn't see it in the picture very clearly.

Bex Scott: [00:05:05] I'm sorry. That was my fault.

Rob: [00:05:07] Absolutely. Anyway. Carry on.

Bex Scott: [00:05:10] Okay, next up, we have another mixing bowl set. It's an ombre. An ombre moment, as the kids would say. And it's kind of an orangey yellowy going into a more orangey. Wow. That's a terrible description.

Rob: [00:05:30] See why I should have been hired?

Bex Scott: [00:05:34] It's an orange ombre. There we go.

Rob: [00:05:37] Well, it brings back some traumatic memories of the colors that my parents made me wear. So I would call that the 70s Throw Up Fade pattern.

Bex Scott: [00:05:50] Oh, the PTSD is strong in this one.

Rob: [00:05:54] Yeah, it goes from like a horrific orange that I remember I had to wear down to like a nasty pastel yellow that I also had to wear.

Bex Scott: [00:06:04] The jumper?

Rob: [00:06:05] Yeah. Where's me jumper?

Bex Scott: [00:06:10] Okay.

Rob: [00:06:11] I'm sure that's probably not quite what Pyrex might have used, but it probably should have been.

Bex Scott: [00:06:16] So is that your your real guess?

Rob: [00:06:19] Okay, fine. Um. Let's see. I would call that. Oh, let's get all fluffy. A f