[Sca-cooks] Period gifts in jars
Chris Stanifer
jugglethis at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 24 11:29:26 PST 2004
--- Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Besides, beer doesn't come in jars, they come
> in bottles.
Oh, I beg to differ, dear lady! My beer comes in jars! Great, thick, beautiful jars, the size of
a human head, at least!!
> FYI, a jar is a cylindrical broad-mouthed vessel
> of earthenware or glass.
Exactly!! And full of BEER!!!
A bottle is a hollow,
> narrow-necked vessel without handles, made of
> glass or earthenware.
Narrow-necked, and without handles??? What madness drove them to put beer into *that* kind of
vessel?? You can't get a decent stagger going if you don't have a handle to hold your beer up!!
What about the sway-and-slosh factor?? You can't get a good slosh out of a narrow-necked bottle,
that's for sure.
Nope. It's jarred beer, or nothing at all, I say!!
William de Grandfort
(all in jest, of course)
=====
Every heart to love will come... but like a refugee.
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