@awk …reminds me of the conferences we used to have at the seashore for EMS. The ‘go to’ beer receptacle for the parties on the beach was a urinal, so you had to be really careful where you set yours down!
(yes, EMTs/Paramedics have a twisted sense of humor…)
I grew up drinking out of them and always hated it because it was kind of awkward sometimes to not spill whatever I was trying to drink. I really don’t understand why it became trendy for a while.
I have some mason jar-style mugs from when I was a kid that are perfect for drinking milk out of, in my opinion. Not that I drink much milk, but when I do I prefer it from a thick-walled glass. It keeps the milk colder longer, and with the handle there isn’t even any heat from your hands warming the milk as you hold the glass. That’s pretty much all I use them for.
i have burner/hippie friends and when you’re at their house and you open the cabinet to get a glass, it’s nothing but jars. for ages my go to drinking glass at one such friend’s house was actually originally a candle jar.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wasn’t fazed by it then and i’m not now, although it wasn’t done to be trendy (that i know of). sure beats those friends who seem to only have coffee mugs and strange one off specialized drink glasses and novelty vessels for some reason. in any case, i don’t have any mason jars at my own house and don’t have an urge to buy any. (might get some of the teeny ones for spices, but that’s just a practical matter made more enjoyable/accessible/affordable by trends.)
I have a few hundred mason jars, some of them dating back to the 1800s, and many from the first half the the 1900s. With rare exception, I use them. I’ve seen those “jars” that start out life with a handle, and fine, if it’s something you like, but I own zero of them, and that’s fine with me.
I have (currently) a few quart jars of tomatoes, and several pint jars of stewed tomatoes. There are plenty of jams and preserves (I don’t ever bother with jelly, for the same reason I don’t drink juice). I also still have some canned fruit left. Remember that it’s summer; autumn and winter will see the pantry with more in it.
Mason jars are for preserving food. I have plenty of nice glasses to drink from. I’ve been canning since I was 5 or 6 (alongside my mother, when I was little, and later, on my own). I hope there are plenty of tomatoes by August; I’m out of tomato soup, and winter’s on the way.
@Shrdlu Yeah, I’m in the same boat. The tomatoes are coming in pretty good right now, and I need to replenish my green tomato chutney stock (great with smoked cream cheese). I am also looking forward to the figs getting ripe so I can put up preserves and dry a bunch (then use the foodsaver I bought here to pack them in jars ‘sous vide’). In the fall I will do spiced pears and pear butter. As you say, my jars are for canning/preserving in. I never really liked the feel of Mason jars in my mouth… it thinks it’s the thickness of the glass and the damn screw threads for the lid…
@Shrdlu I thought of you last week & tried to channel your wisdom!
Was up visiting my Dad in the PA cabin. The blackberries were in overdrive. Unfortunately, they ran on the small size, maybe as big as fat green peas, but were full of blackberry goodness. Scoured the banks of the roadside & creek for bushes and ended up with 6.5 pounds of trouble.
I had forgotten what a PITA it was to make seedless blackberry jam. Turned into an almost 5 hour affair by the time it was over and cleaned up. Jam’s a bit firmer than I like, but it is a nice feeling to be able to tote home something delicious to enjoy as I plot to get back to those old rounded mountains sooner rather than later.
The small people drink out of jelly sized mason jars at my house - because they’re kind of cute, the perfect size around for small hands to handle, practically impossible to break, and I prefer glass to plastic. I dig it.
That said, I don’t really want to drink out of them myself.
I love drinking a cold mason jar of iced tea for some strange reason it just makes the tea that much better. Every once in awhile I like to drink an ice cold Lowenbrau or MGD out of them also. As far as I’m concerned the only thing I won’t drink out of a mason jar is beautiful deep red wine be it a Beaujolais or even a wonderful Sangria with all the fruit trimmings. That’s where I draw the line. Sounds really good think I’ll get one right now, peace ✌ out !!
BTW, sort of like Kleenex is actually ‘facial tissue’, Mason is a brand name for a canning jar, not a generic word, and as such should be capitalized… just like Ball jar.
@chienfou You know that’s Wikipedia, right? Mason jars long ago became a generic description for a canning jar made out of proper glass. I have called them mason jars all my life, as did my mother.
Here’s a link to Ball branded “mason jars” (yep, even though Ball was sold long ago):
They call them “shine jars” here and celebrate their redneckedness by drinking tea out of them. Never thought of redneck as something to be proud of mehself so I don’t use them
I don’t really think much about it. If that’s all that is available I will drink from one, though I use a regular glass if they are not all in the dishwasher, and of course where ambiance demands I do so.
I only drink out of mason jars. They’re well made, cheap, and when you break one you don’t have to go around looking for a matching glass. If you need to mix a beverage, throw the lid on there and shake rigorously. Want to use it for its intended purpose? Do it, I’m not going to stop you.
They recently started serving doubles in mason jars at Citi Field during Mets games. Heavy pours, too. Of course, they’re plastic since it’s a stadium, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, right? Then you can take the plastic mason jars home, wash them out, and drink out of them again without worrying about dropping them and breaking them!!
Back in my misspent youth I and a few compatriots were at a BBQ/beer place all one afternoon, drinking beer from these:
Which were 64oz in size
The glasses were stored in a freezer.
One of us, fortunately, was both sane and responsible, and had a single beer.
At some point we ordered another round.
We were about to start working on them when one of the full 64 oz glasses split right down the middle and flooded the table.
We moved to another table, a bit wetter than we had expected to be, and finished off the second round, but all agreed that the glass breaking was a sign from the universe that we were tempting fate.
So the sober one among us drove us home.
The BBQ place did give us a $50 gift card by way of apology.
I think that we spent that gift card doing the same thing there next weekend. Not sure. We spent it somehow. It’s been a while.
Do Mason jars ever do this? Split down the middle?
No joke, as I was reading the bit about drinking wine out of a mason jar, I was drinking my cold brew coffee…out of a mason jar. Well, for coffee at home in the morning, why not? But wine? It’s done.
Drinking out of mason jars has always been an example of something that “bothers me more than it should”, and I mean long before the early 2000’s (Can I assume from the answers that they had sort of a trendy renaissance at that time?).
I’m not exactly sure what it is. Is it the weight? (heavier than a comparable sized glass). Is it the thickness of the rim or the “lid threading”? (I don’t use a straw when I drink, so any rim irregularity can be vaguely annoying). Is it just that typically the type of restaurants that use them don’t appeal to me and I have a subconscious guilt by association? Mason jars, in my experience, do seem more prone to dribbling then when drinking out of other glasses.
I’m not sure what it is, but I would rather have a regular glass please.
My grandma: People drink out of mason jars?
Me: Yes, Grandma, it’s kinda trendy. Or cool. Or it was cool.
My grandma: Cool means cold. Why do young people say cool when they don’t mean cold.
Me: I don’t know, I’m sorry Grandma, you’re right, that’s silly to say cool.
My grandma: And why would you EVER waste a good canning jar to use it for drinking?
Me: That’s a good question. I don’t know, I’m sorry. You’re right, it’s like we’ve forgotten what these jars were ever made for.
My grandma: GIVE me that jar, I have some rhubarb that needs to be preserved while it’s still in season.
Me: Oh, did you know that eating seasonally is cool now, too?
Mason jars, pshaw. That’s fancy. Mason jars are for hipsters, rich folk, and poor folk feeling uppity. When I was a kid, a couple of my aunts were so country, we’d often find empty frozen OJ containers (it wasn’t WalMart, but some other cheap-ass grocery store generic brand that you could get for pennies; hell, we felt fancy drinking this freshly-mixed from-frozen-concentrate in the first place), in their goddamned shelves to be used as drinking cups.
We rarely resorted to that in our home. At our house, our fancy glassware included those A&W mugs that I’m pretty sure we were supposed to have left at the drive-in, but that my older brothers always managed to drive off with.
@joelmw We had jelly jars and routinely went to the bank on Saturdays to pick up freebies that sometimes you could drink out of. Gas stations gave things like glasses away too. Ah the good old days.
@sammydog01 My wife has her mothers hoard of Duz glasses. When Mcdonalds came out with plastic star wars glasses in the late 2000s we were calling them depression plastic.
@sammydog01@cranky1950
We also had this kind of shit that you could get cheap at fast food joints. We shattered them one-by-one (not on purpose; that’s just how cheap the glass was). Oh the feeling of washing a glass and it falls to pieces around your hand.
Mason jars are for peeing into, not drinking out of.
@awk
@mfladd foamy!
@awk …reminds me of the conferences we used to have at the seashore for EMS. The ‘go to’ beer receptacle for the parties on the beach was a urinal, so you had to be really careful where you set yours down!
(yes, EMTs/Paramedics have a twisted sense of humor…)
@awk
I grew up drinking out of them and always hated it because it was kind of awkward sometimes to not spill whatever I was trying to drink. I really don’t understand why it became trendy for a while.
I have some mason jar-style mugs from when I was a kid that are perfect for drinking milk out of, in my opinion. Not that I drink much milk, but when I do I prefer it from a thick-walled glass. It keeps the milk colder longer, and with the handle there isn’t even any heat from your hands warming the milk as you hold the glass. That’s pretty much all I use them for.
i have burner/hippie friends and when you’re at their house and you open the cabinet to get a glass, it’s nothing but jars. for ages my go to drinking glass at one such friend’s house was actually originally a candle jar.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wasn’t fazed by it then and i’m not now, although it wasn’t done to be trendy (that i know of). sure beats those friends who seem to only have coffee mugs and strange one off specialized drink glasses and novelty vessels for some reason. in any case, i don’t have any mason jars at my own house and don’t have an urge to buy any. (might get some of the teeny ones for spices, but that’s just a practical matter made more enjoyable/accessible/affordable by trends.)
I bought a set of mason jars with the intent to use them as DIY lamp covers, but ended up drinking out of them since we only had mismatched mugs left.
I have a few hundred mason jars, some of them dating back to the 1800s, and many from the first half the the 1900s. With rare exception, I use them. I’ve seen those “jars” that start out life with a handle, and fine, if it’s something you like, but I own zero of them, and that’s fine with me.
I have (currently) a few quart jars of tomatoes, and several pint jars of stewed tomatoes. There are plenty of jams and preserves (I don’t ever bother with jelly, for the same reason I don’t drink juice). I also still have some canned fruit left. Remember that it’s summer; autumn and winter will see the pantry with more in it.
Mason jars are for preserving food. I have plenty of nice glasses to drink from. I’ve been canning since I was 5 or 6 (alongside my mother, when I was little, and later, on my own). I hope there are plenty of tomatoes by August; I’m out of tomato soup, and winter’s on the way.
@Shrdlu
Sounds like a lovely and rare combo of sanity and bliss.
/image garden
@Shrdlu Yeah, I’m in the same boat. The tomatoes are coming in pretty good right now, and I need to replenish my green tomato chutney stock (great with smoked cream cheese). I am also looking forward to the figs getting ripe so I can put up preserves and dry a bunch (then use the foodsaver I bought here to pack them in jars ‘sous vide’). In the fall I will do spiced pears and pear butter. As you say, my jars are for canning/preserving in. I never really liked the feel of Mason jars in my mouth… it thinks it’s the thickness of the glass and the damn screw threads for the lid…
@Shrdlu I thought of you last week & tried to channel your wisdom!
Was up visiting my Dad in the PA cabin. The blackberries were in overdrive. Unfortunately, they ran on the small size, maybe as big as fat green peas, but were full of blackberry goodness. Scoured the banks of the roadside & creek for bushes and ended up with 6.5 pounds of trouble.
I had forgotten what a PITA it was to make seedless blackberry jam. Turned into an almost 5 hour affair by the time it was over and cleaned up. Jam’s a bit firmer than I like, but it is a nice feeling to be able to tote home something delicious to enjoy as I plot to get back to those old rounded mountains sooner rather than later.
The small people drink out of jelly sized mason jars at my house - because they’re kind of cute, the perfect size around for small hands to handle, practically impossible to break, and I prefer glass to plastic. I dig it.
That said, I don’t really want to drink out of them myself.
Mason jars are easily attached to the blade assembly of a blender, so I drink plenty of smoothies and jargaritas out of them.
I love drinking a cold mason jar of iced tea for some strange reason it just makes the tea that much better. Every once in awhile I like to drink an ice cold Lowenbrau or MGD out of them also. As far as I’m concerned the only thing I won’t drink out of a mason jar is beautiful deep red wine
be it a Beaujolais or even a wonderful Sangria with all the fruit trimmings. That’s where I draw the line. Sounds really good think I’ll get one right now, peace ✌ out !!
@hotwheels53 seems like a lot of work for 2 AM! I would just drink out of the bottle then crawl back in bed!
BTW, sort of like Kleenex is actually ‘facial tissue’, Mason is a brand name for a canning jar, not a generic word, and as such should be capitalized… just like Ball jar.
@chienfou Take it up with Irk.
@chienfou You know that’s Wikipedia, right? Mason jars long ago became a generic description for a canning jar made out of proper glass. I have called them mason jars all my life, as did my mother.
Here’s a link to Ball branded “mason jars” (yep, even though Ball was sold long ago):
https://www.freshpreserving.com/jars/
They call them “shine jars” here and celebrate their redneckedness by drinking tea out of them. Never thought of redneck as something to be proud of mehself so I don’t use them
Hey man, whatever’s available.
Mason jars? Too big and bulky! Looney Tunes jelly glasses? Now that’s class!
@themarksmann No Big Top faux crystal peanut butter glasses were class.
I operate under the belief that all glass and ceramic concavities of sufficient depth are equal in the eyes of God.
I don’t really think much about it. If that’s all that is available I will drink from one, though I use a regular glass if they are not all in the dishwasher, and of course where ambiance demands I do so.
I only drink out of mason jars. They’re well made, cheap, and when you break one you don’t have to go around looking for a matching glass. If you need to mix a beverage, throw the lid on there and shake rigorously. Want to use it for its intended purpose? Do it, I’m not going to stop you.
They recently started serving doubles in mason jars at Citi Field during Mets games. Heavy pours, too. Of course, they’re plastic since it’s a stadium, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, right? Then you can take the plastic mason jars home, wash them out, and drink out of them again without worrying about dropping them and breaking them!!
Mason jars are for drinking moonshine out of not any of this fancy wine stuff
I have never actually been served a drink in a Mason Jar. Or have ever served one.
This does not imply “class” or “taste” or “standards”. I’ve been served plenty of drinks in the better quality of disposable plastic cups.
I can see the argument for the thickness of the glass keeping things cold.
Do the glass “real” ones really tend not to break if kids drop them?
Back in my misspent youth I and a few compatriots were at a BBQ/beer place all one afternoon, drinking beer from these:
Which were 64oz in size
The glasses were stored in a freezer.
One of us, fortunately, was both sane and responsible, and had a single beer.
At some point we ordered another round.
We were about to start working on them when one of the full 64 oz glasses split right down the middle and flooded the table.
We moved to another table, a bit wetter than we had expected to be, and finished off the second round, but all agreed that the glass breaking was a sign from the universe that we were tempting fate.
So the sober one among us drove us home.
The BBQ place did give us a $50 gift card by way of apology.
I think that we spent that gift card doing the same thing there next weekend. Not sure. We spent it somehow. It’s been a while.
Do Mason jars ever do this? Split down the middle?
Perhaps they’re not made the same way.
@f00l No, they’re generally made pretty sturdily and are heat and pressure resistant becauze of the nature of the canning process.
I really don’t care.
No joke, as I was reading the bit about drinking wine out of a mason jar, I was drinking my cold brew coffee…out of a mason jar. Well, for coffee at home in the morning, why not? But wine? It’s done.
Jars? Sure, for sweet tea. When it’s time for the fancy wines in Louisiana we break out the Mardi Gras parade cups.
Drinking out of mason jars has always been an example of something that “bothers me more than it should”, and I mean long before the early 2000’s (Can I assume from the answers that they had sort of a trendy renaissance at that time?).
I’m not exactly sure what it is. Is it the weight? (heavier than a comparable sized glass). Is it the thickness of the rim or the “lid threading”? (I don’t use a straw when I drink, so any rim irregularity can be vaguely annoying). Is it just that typically the type of restaurants that use them don’t appeal to me and I have a subconscious guilt by association? Mason jars, in my experience, do seem more prone to dribbling then when drinking out of other glasses.
I’m not sure what it is, but I would rather have a regular glass please.
My grandma: People drink out of mason jars?
Me: Yes, Grandma, it’s kinda trendy. Or cool. Or it was cool.
My grandma: Cool means cold. Why do young people say cool when they don’t mean cold.
Me: I don’t know, I’m sorry Grandma, you’re right, that’s silly to say cool.
My grandma: And why would you EVER waste a good canning jar to use it for drinking?
Me: That’s a good question. I don’t know, I’m sorry. You’re right, it’s like we’ve forgotten what these jars were ever made for.
My grandma: GIVE me that jar, I have some rhubarb that needs to be preserved while it’s still in season.
Me: Oh, did you know that eating seasonally is cool now, too?
A Mason Jar Is the Only Tool You Need for Perfectly Emulsified Dressings
Mason jars, pshaw. That’s fancy. Mason jars are for hipsters, rich folk, and poor folk feeling uppity. When I was a kid, a couple of my aunts were so country, we’d often find empty frozen OJ containers (it wasn’t WalMart, but some other cheap-ass grocery store generic brand that you could get for pennies; hell, we felt fancy drinking this freshly-mixed from-frozen-concentrate in the first place), in their goddamned shelves to be used as drinking cups.
We rarely resorted to that in our home. At our house, our fancy glassware included those A&W mugs that I’m pretty sure we were supposed to have left at the drive-in, but that my older brothers always managed to drive off with.
@joelmw We had jelly jars and routinely went to the bank on Saturdays to pick up freebies that sometimes you could drink out of. Gas stations gave things like glasses away too. Ah the good old days.
@sammydog01 My wife has her mothers hoard of Duz glasses. When Mcdonalds came out with plastic star wars glasses in the late 2000s we were calling them depression plastic.
@sammydog01 @cranky1950
We also had this kind of shit that you could get cheap at fast food joints. We shattered them one-by-one (not on purpose; that’s just how cheap the glass was). Oh the feeling of washing a glass and it falls to pieces around your hand.
@joelmw I have these glasses in my kitchen- the ones with handles are from McD.
@sammydog01
The plastic glasses got dishwashered so many times that the decals peeled off and finally they cracked and had to be thrown away.
/image stemmed mason jar
@medz You just might be a Redneck
@cranky1950 Shoot. Rednecks ain’t got no stemware!
And yes, I do have a set of those and the half-size “margarita” stemmed mason jars.
@medz if it’s at tractor supply and those are, they got it.
@cranky1950
Redneck stemware .
/giphy rifle
