Comment by TacticalCoder

Growing up in a french speaking country, we'd call all ballpoint pens "bic".

Because of this:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bic_(entreprise)

Up to this day many still say, on a daily basis, say, a "bic bleu" (blue ballpen) or "bic noir" (black ballpen).

And virtually everyone french speaking calls a refrigerator (fridge) a "frigo".