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Short tangential story:

My grandfather many decades ago came home with a pack of "unbreakable" glasses. My grandmother asked why he had bought them. He shrugged and replied "well, if you don't want them..." and threw them all on the floor.

They all broke, of course.

My grandmother was not amused. She was a very serious person. The rest of the family is still laughing on 60 years later.

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My aunt did that with a corningware plate. "This is unbreakable" then proceeded to yeet it on the concrete floor covered in linoleum. It was quiet an impressive splash of splinters everywhere.

Shatter resistant is a better term. :) Or as Jerryrigeverything says 'glass is glass'.

My mother did the exact same thing. When I was a kid we hosted a 3 refugee sisters who were new to Canada. Despite a significant language barrier my mother tried to explain the dinnerware was unbreakable and they didn't need to worry about it too much. She tossed a plate on the floor to demonstrate. It landed on edge and shattered everywhere. The poor refugees were so confused about why this white woman has just destroyed a perfectly good plate.

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