If i wanted to drink out of a fucking jam jar

[JackandDiane]

I would stand by my recycling bin
Please use glasses

"fæces-shaped lights"

Yes, but what shape is a turd, exactly? They come in all shapes, sizes and colours. We don't actually need to know.

Someone on here was served a cocktail in a tin. It froze her fingers. I'd have sent it back.

My gran used to use jam jars as drinking vessels, a lot of people who were adults during the war and well remember rationing did that. Or who were poor.

One of the bars round here had been serving their drinks in jam jars for ages - since before the Second World War. Locals would bring in their own jars too. The Weights and Measures Act in the 1950s soon put an end to it though.

Agree about food being served on boars - bleurgh! Environmental Health wouldn't be happy if the chef were using wooden chopping boards to prepare the food so why is ti OK to serve the food on them? The only answers that I can think of are that the serving boards are made from a particular not-so-porous wood (teak?) or have to be regularly treated with an appropriate oil... They do age and look skanky after a while too.

y'know what is 10x worse than slate/board where a plate should be? slate/board with the silhouette of a fork or a spoon done in icing sugar! That is NEVER okay!

we had the boards where I worked and if you dont wash over 75 degrees it doesnt remove trace allergens so quite manky and dangerous
I do hope you don't still work in catering, heat doesn't kill allergens like gluten & barley it kills pathogens! (and maybe denatures some proteins, but it doesn't kill allergens!)

Me and a friend went for some lunch recently and were amused to be served drinks in what looked like a crude jam jar with a handle/1970s beer mug hybrid. Our lunch came on a tin tray, the food was good though.
I hate those little mini chip fryers, they make the chips greasy and I also think you get a small portion.

Agree about food being served on boars........

BOARS!!! Now that is a step too far.

How would you catch them?!

Maybe you ride them whilst eating your artisan Burger off their heads?

We went to an American Diner for a family meal a few months ago and my cider came in the jam jar. A family member pinched my glass and took it home!

When you pay, give the restaurant the money sellotaped to a badger.

Actually not even money. Give them milk bottle tops sellotaped to a badger.

I saw a hilarious Nifty video on Facebook that showed how to make wine glasses by gluing a chunky crystal candle stick to a jar. Even uglier that it sounds!

There is a funny website
www.wewantplates.com
Has photos of the fucking stupid ways food is served these days. Also takes the piss out of the people who buy into it.

Boars? Oops! I meant boards! What a typo!

The wonderful song :)

The owner of the restaurant/pub I used to work in was really tight with money she once tried to get us to put the peelings of carrots under the carrot salad to make it appear there was more on a buffet. Anyway we needed new slates which so one afternoon she came back with around 100 slarte roof tiles they were dirty and jagged and cut your hands. The only thing worse than a wanky slate is a wanky ex roof slate. We refused to use them

I am so glad to have read this thread.
To avoid being ripped to pieces on Mumsnet and/or RL I have said nothing about this trendy crap of serving food on a slate or chopping board. I have spent a lifetime of eating from china plates with cutlery and I fail to see why anyone would think it "trendy" to eat from slates and boards. As for the wee buckets or mini deep fat fryer baskets I doubt if any of my male relatives would be satisfied with that small amount of chips.
As I have preferences and allergies I would be concerned about the cleaning of slates and chopping boards. I doubt if they could be cleaned enough to ensure that the last meal is thoroughly cleaned off.
I don't like the wooden/laminated floors. There are a lot of houses around me with them. People come across as uncaring and selfish because they don't know the amount of noise these floors create for neighbours.
Basically I wonder why people want to go back to the days when some people were too poor to have proper plates and in the case of floors they could not afford carpet so either had bare boards or lino. I just don't see why. It could have been easy cleaning but I have seen how my NDN sweeps the dust under the chairs!

We drink out of jam jars, gravy granule jars, plastic tumblers and serve food in recycled plastic tubs.

We're not hipsters, we're fucking poor and live in a country where there's no poundland or Primark to buy cheap kitchen shit. When we move back to UK next month I'm going STRAIGHT to Ikea and buying every piece of useless kitchen equipment they have and I will use the crap out of it.

What I find even worse than the jam jar cocktail thing is the trend the magazines keep pushing for making a salad in a jam jar to take to work.

Who wants to cart a jam jar around in their handbag all day? And can you imagine how disgusting salad is that's been in a sealed glass jar all morning? Boak.

'when some people were too poor to have proper plates and in the case of floors they could not afford carpet so either had bare boards or lino. I just don't see why.'

Because carpets are minging. You cannot mop them and they are a bitch to deep clean. We live in a flat that has a dining/living area. It's open and it was be filthy to have a carpet in there. I'm not living in such filth just for my neighbour's benefit. We have a subfloor and underlay.

I was a skeptic about the salad in a jar thing, but tried it out. It does work but you do need a fridge at work to keep it in. But if you get the layers right you get quite a nice salad because the tomato and salad leaves are kept separate from the dressing but in one convenient container. That being said I did feel like a poncy hipster at lunch time.

I can see why carpets are considered to be less clean than hard floors BUT when I cleaned in a pub the cheapskate management decided to replace the worn manky carpet round the bar with pale 'wooden look' flooring as it was much cheaper than new carpet.

With the carpet we just vacuumed/scraped up chewing gum etc but after we had to vac/sweep and then mop. We weren't impressed. And after a short time it got still got manky with the addition of marks left by heels, and looked even worse than the carpet.

That's because it was in a pub, blithering. Carpet in a home is an entirely different thing.

You can't do a salad in a jar if you get to work on public transport can you? you'ld have to sit there with it out holding it upright the whole way so the dressing doesn't mix with the top layers?

If it's rattling round in your bag there's no benefit over a lunch box

bento boxes keep things nicely un mixed until you wanna mix them and you don't have to be a jamjarwanker at lunch!