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"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote:

> I wonder if this is all a plot at Jarden to get us to move to those
> super expensive "Ball Collection Elite Platinum" lids that are just
> plain steel with a poly coat, no color anodization. It's the old story
> of introduce a cheaper replacement product, label it with a more
> expensive-sounding name, then make the existing product cruddier
> and cruddier over the following years so that it becomes unusable and
> you have to go to the more expensive product that gives you less.
>
> Ted

My Fair intake ladies politely asked me to please not use those jars
(they refer to them as flat jars) because they take up too much room in
the display case and they like to display as many of the entries as they
are able to. I can think of one woman there who would be apoplectic
over it if it came to eliminating the taller jars. I have some old Ball
and Kerr jars that are squareround and round -- wide mouth openings.

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