In article >,
Lin > wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > The jars would take _more_ shelf space. You could fit over 60
> > packages in a 4.5" wide space. With bottles you'd have to stack
> > them (and they're not really that stackable (unless you want them
> > falling all over the place).
>
> Waaaaay back in the day as a kid, those jars made for very nice juice
> glasses, as many products like jams and jellies were done in jars that
> you could use as drinkware.
>
> Not so long ago I mentioned to my mom that I couldn't find the dried
> beef in a jar like she used to get, and I'll be darned if she didn't
> find two jars of beef and send them to me! I haven't made creamed
> chipped beef yet -- the nostalgia of seeing the beef in those jars keeps
> me from doing it.
>
> --Lin

That's too cool. :-) I have a couple of colored aluminum glasses that
belonged to my maternal grandmother that once had jelly in them!
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