Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not supposed to be a drinking vessel, since there are screw threads that do not make it very comfortable to drink out of.

But if you're not fazed by that or rules of etiquette, go ahead.

Do you understand what etiquette is?

Maybe she means that etiquette calls for using the proper/acceptable drinking vessel? Ex, you drink wine from the proper wine glass and you drink water or whatever from a drinking glass, not a jelly jar.

I have never done it, even though I have a large collection of old Mason jars, mostly the green/blue ones. They were a mainstay item in my family households growing up, but never used as glasses. My grandmother and aunts would have been appalled -- as if they couldn't afford real glasses to drink from! Mason jars were used for canning, to hold things like rice, flour, or pasta. Have had my collection for years, but now when people see them in my house they think I am a hipster. Mine still get used to hold things like candy, pasta, and also flowers.
BTW, I don't think they do make good glasses. The rims lead to a lot of leaking/spilling when you take a sip. I guess if you use a straw they are OK.

I understand cheap! I use plastic tumblers from Target but it seems like mason jars would be awkward to drink out of.

We used to drink out of jelly jars when I was a kid. They were sold that way -- with Flintstone images on them. I think all our neighbors did it too.

I think mason jars are clunky and unattractive.

Anonymous wrote:
It's not supposed to be a drinking vessel, since there are screw threads that do not make it very comfortable to drink out of.

But if you're not fazed by that or rules of etiquette, go ahead.

Do you understand what etiquette is?

A long time ago people did a lot more canning. You do it from time to time, but in between you end up with a lot of empty jars, sitting on a shelf. So they are clean and available.

Anonymous wrote:My relatives from the Tidewater area of Virginia have used mason jars for drinking for as long as I can remember. They also use them for storage, so I guess they are multipurpose items. These relatives are decidedly not hipsters

I grew up in the Tidewater area and always drank out of mason jars! So did my family. Now I live in the DC area and I brought my jars with me!

I have a few and always choose them as drinking glasses when pulling stuff out of the cabinet. I drank out of them as a kid in the 70s, so maybe there's a little nostalgia. I like them most though because they're bigger than most other 12 or 16 oz glasses we have.

This is the kind of thing that just doesn't matter AT ALL, so why I'm saying anything is beyond me. But I feel like people who purchase mason jars specifically to use as their everyday drinking glasses are doing it because it's hip. Because typically, people drink from mason jars because they have them around the house from their canning endeavors, and/or because they purchase foods from the Amish or farmer's markets. I drank juice out of little jelly glasses because that's the kind of jelly my mom bought, and she was frugal as all get-out. She'd never have actually purchased empty jelly jars. I have a staunch belief that you should do what you like to do whether it is hip or not, and that includes doing it if you like it DESPITE its hip factor; but of course you should not do something simply because it is hip. I have worn Chuck Taylors since I was 12 years old, and I still wear them today even though it might be presumed I am trying to be hip. I suppose if I truly adored mason jars, I would buy some, and I don't really care if anybody else does or not. Unless of course you're just oozing phony hipster cool, then I do care, I can't help it.

Anonymous wrote:My relatives from the Tidewater area of Virginia have used mason jars for drinking for as long as I can remember. They also use them for storage, so I guess they are multipurpose items. These relatives are decidedly not hipsters

No, they're cool. The hipsters are the mason jar drinkers in Beltwayland with graduate degrees, six figure household incomes and hundreds of dollars of glassware in their fancy kitchens.

We do it because that's how we grew up. We had nicer glasses for company. Mason jars for everyday.

But I'm from Mississippi. I guess we were doing it before it was cool.

Anonymous wrote:We've done it for years. A case is super cheap and we use the jars both for drinking and food storage.

+1

and why not? they make great glasses.

Years ago, there was a bar in Old Towne Alexandria called “Masons.” They served all their drinks in Mason jars.

My relatives from the Tidewater area of Virginia have used mason jars for drinking for as long as I can remember. They also use them for storage, so I guess they are multipurpose items. These relatives are decidedly not hipsters

Because they are hipsters. Bonus points if it's nettle tea.