If i wanted to drink out of a fucking jam jar

[JackandDiane]

I would stand by my recycling bin
Please use glasses

I got my lemonade in a jam jar at a posh cafe recently, with a big lump of mint leaves, complete with twig thrown in. Looked like something my kids used to make in Science class. Bloody horrible

Agree with Noonesfool. Take a look at 'We want plates' on Buzzfeed. It makes drinking out of a jam jar look fairly tame by comparison!

We went out for a meal the other day, chips were in a silver bucket and the burgers were on a piece of paper on a trays with a large rim. Water was in a jug which looked like it was straight from the school dinner table.

Glad it's not just me! Haven't been given a drink in a jar yet, but whenever I'm somewhere having food I have a quick look round and if they're serving food on anything other than a plate I give my order and add, "on a plate please". No-one's ever batted an eyelid and I get my plate.
Wtf is the slate thing all about??

I think k when Lakeland have been selling the drinking jars (the ones I hate not have handles. So a jarry mug then?), milk bottles, mini baskets for years, you know that fashionable they are not.

The ones I hate MOST. Rage has infected my fingers and they cannot type.

Some years ago, a couple of very poor families I knew used to serve tea in jam jars as they couldn't afford cups, so this trend for using jam jars as "cool containers" for upmarket drinks sits a bit uneasily with me.

Down with Slates.
Up with Plates!

Bring on the revoloution.

I like to have the RIGHT glass for a thing.

Cocktail bars where a drink that should be in a martini glass is in a tumbler are annoying. It feels less special.

I'd probably admit that for SOME cocktails a jam jar is the correct glass. But only some.

Oh my, the wheelbarrow of chips that kept on wheeling. Hilarious!

This would be the perfect thread to post this picture I just took in Sainsbury's. Who is buying this crap? WHO?!

And wouldn't all the fries just fall out of that fries cone?

It always makes me think of my kids making 'potion' in the garden, and bringing you a jam jar of dirty water with bits of leaves and dandelions in it....and on one memorable ocassion when they had a friend over, some wee.

Generally though if my food isn't served on an old house brick or a lump of tarmac, I won't eat it. Beverages should be served in old soup tins, anything else is passé.

jam jars. Student houses when you've run out of clean mugs!

You can buy those mini deep fat fryer baskets in wilkinsons.
Yanbu. It's a silly trend.

Giraffe, you put a bit of paper in the cone don't you?

Anyway, when I was little, my favourite glass was a surf - branded Nutella jar. That was shaped LIKE A GLASS so therefore better. My, I was avant garde.

Serving things on wooden chopping boards ais the worst. No way you can clean those properly.

Oh my god yes... I hate this trend! Drinks in jam jars, food on chopping boards or slates, chips in little metal plant pots or cups... Why can't we just have plates? And normal glasses?? It drives me mad!

noble you have to line them with brown paper first. Like baking paper. Ironic like.

There's a place round here that serves some courses in a shovel, yes a ruddy shovel - the sort of thing that Grandpa used for his coal, clearly ridiculous.

And I refuse to eat anything out of a bucket.

Or, in especially hipster establishments, they are lined with pretend newspaper. For proper northern chippy irony.

YANBU.

Went to a naice pub the other week and had fish and chips. It arrived on a fucking roof slate. When asked 'can I get you anything else?' my reply of 'just a plate, please,' made my much cooler friends SO embarrassed.

I HATE this trend.

Aye mine had pretend newspaper on it too.

Wewantplates is brilliant.

I was one of those who experienced it back in the day..... steak served on a chopping board!! It was quite novel then but my immediate questions were about meat juice leakage and hygiene!!! It was a good steak.....

I have genuine vintage jam jars with a lip rather than a screw top that I sometimes use as glasses. Or as charming rustic vases. I don't mind food served in unusual vessels either. I'm obviously a wannabe hipster.

I have got a mini milk bottle like the one you had if you remember school milk...DS loved it as it was hard to knock over as the base was wider than the top.

I recently bought myself a large plastic milk bottle with a screw top and straw as we were not allowed glass by the pool when on holiday...I ignored the twattiness to be able to swim then rock up to the side and sip