Jars Aren’t Just For Tobacco

[rmpeeps]

What else are y’all jarring/canning?
Finest South Texas Prickly Pear Jelly EVER!!

 

[olkofri]

Just tobacco. I'd rather buy my jams at the supermarket.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I smell a pic of the Captain’s Kentucky cleaning fluid coming....

I use mine for beer.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I smell a pic of the Captain’s Kentucky cleaning fluid coming....

Whatever do you mean?

 

[trouttimes]

Saw a lot of that growing up in GA mins!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

A Southern classic...

 

[3rdguy]

 

[sandollars]

huh, Go figure. I had no idea there was any other use for them jars but Tobacco storage.

 

[mso489]

I don't mean to be irreverent, maybe just silly, but the North Carolina ABC stores (don't ask) carry licensed and taxed corn liquor in jars, which is heretical. My wife grew up in rural Missouri where the joke was that revival preachers often had a groove in the bridge of their noses from the corn liquor jars.

 

[diamondback]

My grandparents crammed ‘em full of food! Can you imagine perfectly good tobacco jars full of food?

What were they thinking? I mean, really. No reasonable person with a lick of common... meh don’t get me goin.

 

[Chasing Embers]

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Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr and Anne Uumellmahaye.

 

[lawdawg]

I grew some pickling cucumbers and made some canned dill pickles this year, and they came out pretty good. However, I'll say that getting the pickles to have a crispy texture has proven very challenging.

Whatever do you mean?

You guys in Kentucky like to keep water in your mason jars?

 

[Chasing Embers]

I grew some pickling cucumbers and made some canned dill pickles this year, and they came out pretty good. However, I'll say that getting the pickles to have a crispy texture has proven very challenging.


You guys in Kentucky like to keep water in your mason jars?

Only the mountain water.

 

[trouttimes]

We keep it around for "sore throats". We sure were a lot sicker back then than we are now.

 

[Elric]

I never thought of jarring anything but tobacco. What a brilliant idea! ?

 

[prndl]

When I was growing up in north Georgia in the '50's, my father always kept a Mason jar full of "medicine" underneath the kitchen sink. He must have been sick quite often back then because, I can remember him hitting that jar almost every single day.

As a side note, my older brother ran 'shine out of those same hills with Junior Samples a few years before his "Hee-Haw" days and, (according to my brother) well...let's just say that Junior wasn't acting on TV and leave it at that.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

A buddy of mine was making corn liquor for his Civil War re-enactor friends. I was just hanging out, just watching. chung chung, bribble bribble, chung chung, bribble bribble, with white liquor drizzling out into jars. I really don't drink much of anything except maybe a glass of wine here or there, and especially not that stuff. It seems to make people do stupid things, unlike anything anyone who has drank regular liquor would do. So, I was the only one ok to drive, and they ran out of jars. So he hands me a twenty and asks me to run to Dollar General to buy him some more jars.

It was while I was standing in line with a couple of cases of Mason jars in my arms that I realized that there was an odor of pure moonshine emanating from me. I started to get a creeping paranoia. I am just standing there, trying to look inconspicuous. It's always in those moments in my life that someone from church walks up and wants to ask me about my kids...

I did get to bring home a couple of jars. It didn't smell exactly like any whisky I've ever smelled, but it would cut the lake scum off the bottom of my aluminum canoe unlike any other cleaner I've ever seen... leaving it shiny, like a new dime.

 

[subsalac]

We keep it around for "sore throats". We sure were a lot sicker back then than we are now.

That can only mean one thing: The remedy works.