This is hilarious. Until you pointed this out, I had no idea that mason jar salads were a thing. It’s so ridiculous.
Aren’t they used just because they are easy to pack, so you can have your home-made salad at work/school/whatever? I’ve been living a lie?
Apparently.
A lidded plastic bowl would serve your purpose just as well, and maybe better.
That was my feeling as well. Lighter weight, no broken glass.
Yeah, but plastic never feels *clean* after you use it the first time. It takes, like, three washes so it doesn’t feel really greasy.
Maybe–but they’re served in a jar in trendy restaurants these days. It drives me crazy. And, as mariner says below, a lidded plastic bowl (or box) would be a much easier way to pack and eat salad. And lighter to carry.
I want people to stop using them at weddings. Along with burlap. Mason jars and burlap. Around here we call it “Pinterest Rustic”.
Amen!
I like to get my corn in a jar. Always have, always will.
Dirt’s too rocky by far, Doc?
Indeed. I find that a mason jar is the perfect transport and serving vessel for a very efficient distillation of corn. Wouldn’t put a salad or a taco in it though.
Just don’t you step on my blue suede shoes.
I’ve put my corn in interesting and unmentionable places, but I draw the line at anything with a lid.
Mason jars are great for making and mailing pound cake and brownies, though. Sent them to my son in Iraq and they were perfect.
Hipsters ruin everything.
What’s the difference between a pregnant girlfriend and a Mason jar? You can unscrew a Mason jar.
I keep one on my desk next to my personal coffee maker. Everyone thinks it’s filled with water for the Keurig. Heh, heh, heh….
I’m a Southerner, born and bred by the grace of God.
Mason jars are for canning, ice tea, drinking likker, and storing (some) leftovers in the fridge.
They are not for serving food in.
They have been serving drinks in Mason jars at Redbones in Davis Sq. Somerville, MA, for 26 years.
Pinto beans, cornbread, buttermilk. Mash it all up in a quart size mason jar. I saw my daddy with this meal many times as a kid; he would always tell me stories about grandma while he scooped it up. We always had tea and lemonade in mason jars. We did not have hipster doofuses to tell us how cool mason jars were/used to be.
HD, salad in a jar is a good thing if you’re packing lunches for school or work. To serve at the table or, even worse, a wedding? Not cute. This was hilarious, but it reminded me how annoyed I have always been by food trends (well, trends in general, really). I say, let’s all eat what we like, when we like, how we like–with no thought to whether it’s hip or not!
I keep old fingers and toes in mason jars. Most of my collection is buried in my crawl space. The pieces most dear to me, are kept on a shrine in my man cave (yes, full of real men..)
I can’t go anywhere that serves good beer in a jar. No way. I have made panna cotta in little jars…it was cute, but I’m over it especially after reading this!
This is HIGH-LARIOUS!! You are my hero! I was just at the tragically “Marriottized” Algonquin Hotel in NYC–the playground of the great wits and geniuses of the 20th Century–where they are now serving their cocktails…IN FUCKING MASON JARS! As meemaw is my witness, I ordered a Jameson’s & soda ($23) and it came to me…in a ridiculous, generic Mason-TYPE jar….not even the real thing (don’t extra “heinousness” points get tacked-on for using FAKE Mason jars??)! This is like taking the wealthy dowager matriarch of your family…and shoving a corn-cob pipe in her mouth. I mean…what the fuck?
Mason jars are good for hot alcoholic drinks, because they don’t go all splodey; and yet you can see your drink, unlike a mug. But no, I’d rather not have salad in a jar.
Mason jar salads excel in one area: preservation. As long as you vacuum pack the jar, most salads stay fresh for over a week. It’s not for everyone, but if you have little time during the week to cook yet can make batches of these on weekends, you save a lot of time and end up with a healthy meal.
This is hilarious. Until you pointed this out, I had no idea that mason jar salads were a thing. It’s so ridiculous.
Aren’t they used just because they are easy to pack, so you can have your home-made salad at work/school/whatever? I’ve been living a lie?
Apparently.
A lidded plastic bowl would serve your purpose just as well, and maybe better.
That was my feeling as well. Lighter weight, no broken glass.
Yeah, but plastic never feels *clean* after you use it the first time. It takes, like, three washes so it doesn’t feel really greasy.
Maybe–but they’re served in a jar in trendy restaurants these days. It drives me crazy. And, as mariner says below, a lidded plastic bowl (or box) would be a much easier way to pack and eat salad. And lighter to carry.
I want people to stop using them at weddings. Along with burlap. Mason jars and burlap. Around here we call it “Pinterest Rustic”.
Amen!
I like to get my corn in a jar. Always have, always will.
Dirt’s too rocky by far, Doc?
Indeed. I find that a mason jar is the perfect transport and serving vessel for a very efficient distillation of corn. Wouldn’t put a salad or a taco in it though.
Just don’t you step on my blue suede shoes.
I’ve put my corn in interesting and unmentionable places, but I draw the line at anything with a lid.
Mason jars are great for making and mailing pound cake and brownies, though. Sent them to my son in Iraq and they were perfect.
Hipsters ruin everything.
What’s the difference between a pregnant girlfriend and a Mason jar? You can unscrew a Mason jar.
I keep one on my desk next to my personal coffee maker. Everyone thinks it’s filled with water for the Keurig. Heh, heh, heh….
I’m a Southerner, born and bred by the grace of God.
Mason jars are for canning, ice tea, drinking likker, and storing (some) leftovers in the fridge.
They are not for serving food in.
They have been serving drinks in Mason jars at Redbones in Davis Sq. Somerville, MA, for 26 years.
Pinto beans, cornbread, buttermilk. Mash it all up in a quart size mason jar. I saw my daddy with this meal many times as a kid; he would always tell me stories about grandma while he scooped it up. We always had tea and lemonade in mason jars. We did not have hipster doofuses to tell us how cool mason jars were/used to be.
I SOOO totally agree. Salad in a jar? Spare me. http://kathleenmwall.com/2014/05/21/the-mason-fixin-line/
HD, salad in a jar is a good thing if you’re packing lunches for school or work. To serve at the table or, even worse, a wedding? Not cute. This was hilarious, but it reminded me how annoyed I have always been by food trends (well, trends in general, really). I say, let’s all eat what we like, when we like, how we like–with no thought to whether it’s hip or not!
I keep old fingers and toes in mason jars. Most of my collection is buried in my crawl space. The pieces most dear to me, are kept on a shrine in my man cave (yes, full of real men..)
I can’t go anywhere that serves good beer in a jar. No way. I have made panna cotta in little jars…it was cute, but I’m over it especially after reading this!
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This is HIGH-LARIOUS!! You are my hero! I was just at the tragically “Marriottized” Algonquin Hotel in NYC–the playground of the great wits and geniuses of the 20th Century–where they are now serving their cocktails…IN FUCKING MASON JARS! As meemaw is my witness, I ordered a Jameson’s & soda ($23) and it came to me…in a ridiculous, generic Mason-TYPE jar….not even the real thing (don’t extra “heinousness” points get tacked-on for using FAKE Mason jars??)! This is like taking the wealthy dowager matriarch of your family…and shoving a corn-cob pipe in her mouth. I mean…what the fuck?
Mason jars are good for hot alcoholic drinks, because they don’t go all splodey; and yet you can see your drink, unlike a mug. But no, I’d rather not have salad in a jar.
Mason jar salads excel in one area: preservation. As long as you vacuum pack the jar, most salads stay fresh for over a week. It’s not for everyone, but if you have little time during the week to cook yet can make batches of these on weekends, you save a lot of time and end up with a healthy meal.