[Closed] Hipsters and jam jars

When did all this silliness of drinking from jam jars start? Seen also in bars recently.

As I understand it it's a faintly embarrassing nod toward environmentalism and recycling. I saw someone doing it in the Tyneside the other day whilst working on his screenplay and playing with his pipe.

Are you sure it is water and not good old Moonshine?

is that a boozer?

looks grim.

Been in bars we knock about in for about a year.

Where you been drinkin? Local workin men's club ? 😆

It is all to do with the trend for environmental push back.

surely it's his "beaker" and he's reliving last night's entertainment ?

Do their bit for the environment, whilst on the internet! -shakes head!

Ton, it's in a piddly little airport in Montana.

Recycling? OK, but I've got my Camelbak Podium bottle with me and am refilling as and when. Much more practical, surely?

Camelbak Podium

Goes with the cheap luggage I suppose.

We sell them. 4 jam jars with screw on lids and a straw.
Won gift of the year 2014.
Stops people slipping drugs in your drink as well.

Jam jars

PAH

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The Canadians have been doing this for years.

LOL @ kimbers, series one was the bomb.

CFH did Montana run out of post it notes?

He's away ?

Piss in the jamjar 🙂

Clearly a marmalade/syrup jar

Do their bit for the environment, whilst on the internet! -shakes head!

He looks like a right self-facilitating media node in that hat 😀

aren't there restrictions on what size bottle you can take on a plane, even if it's not full? Maybe the jar can be a way to carry a drinks vessel (empty) and get around that. If you take the lid off you can claim it's a glass.

+ maybe he prefers drinking out of a glass than a bottle and this is free rather than buy a wide necked nasty chemical free plastic bottle.

Its not a jam jar its a mason jar. And the hipsters love the mason jar.

Where you been drinkin?

Paradise by way of Kensal Green. I am definately cooler than you and I have not witnessed this fad 😛

Just pop in to Apple before 'hitting' the Mason Jar store...

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Good lord

I was hoping the hipster thing was already fading away

Thing is I reckon CFH would love one of these
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I dunno. Normally I'd say live and let live. Some people have different tastes and ideas and ways of living their lives, it shouldn't really bother me. Hipsters, however, seem to be the exception.

Gin in a tea cup and vodka in a sweet jars FTW.

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I thought Thin Lizzy did whiskey in the jar?

The Dubliners released it prior to Thin Lizzy

Hipsters, however, seem to be the exception

This

It's just so false, forced, trying too hard to look like a top hat.

I don't know why it riles me, but I found myself annoyed by a guy in the gym because of his beard and rolled up sleeves on his t-shirt 😀

Its simple, they are attention seeking pricks who are desperate for you to engage them in conversation so they can spout utter shite about how innovative and wonderful they are.

Upcycling or some shite like that.

Get with it. Glasses are far too mmainstream.

Here in China, it is quite normal for them to use Jars for drinking tea of it.
Why pay for a bottle, when you can re-use a Jar for it.

(beer in this case)

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yunki - Member
The Dubliners released it prior to Thin Lizzy

Was in the slug and lettuce in Manchester last weekend and noticed that some of the cocktails came in jars, but with holes in the top for a straw.
Just wait until he drops it

The jar doesn't bother me, the wearing of hats indoors however..

There's a barbers down the road where the staff wear woolly hats. What sort of advert is that?

Its simple, they are attention seeking pricks who are desperate for you to engage them in conversation so they can spout utter shite about how innovative and wonderful they are.

Reminds me of STW'ers and 29'ers

I hate it when people aren't exactly the same as me. Properly winds me up.

Tom_W1987 - Member
Kensal Green. I am definately cooler than you and I have not witnessed this fad

You clearly are waaaayyyy cooler than me, post pics, lets decide 😆

Its simple, they are attention seeking pricks who are desperate for you to engage them in conversation so they can spout utter shite about how innovative and wonderful they are.

Are they? Are they really or is it just a different image? An image you don't like, fine. Punks got a lot of stick too back in the late 70's.. Most Hipsters are normal, just like the rest of Human society.
Though had to laugh, my friends came over from Berlin last year and they came over just as the nekkid Boris Bike event was on and the first question they asked was... "show us some Hipsters and take us to the places they hang out" hilarious. 😆
They went back thinking London was proper Trendy 😆

Anyways up, whose not been in a Pub and asked for a "jar" of Beer?

It's about time we recycled all those Bonne Maman Jam Jars donchafink? 😆

Using jars as drinking vessels is described in a few John Steinbeck novels (Cannery Row from memory) so maybe that is where this trend originates?

Fwiiw I was served beer in a jam jar in a diner in Downieville, CA about ten years ago.

I agree with CFH that a Camelback bottle is far more practical.

I think carrying one round with a lid so he can use it as a water bottle is a bit nonsensical. But we sometimes use jam jars in the house for drinks.....mostly because they work pretty well and by recycling a few it meant one less trip to Ikea to spend a subsequent hundred quid on candles and rugs.

Never without a gourd.

Drinking out of Mason jars is something quite normal in 'merica.
I would not be surprised that someone who oozes the British Empire as much as CFH would be unaware of foreign norms. I expect he travels with a bone china cup and saucer in case of emergencies.

Anyways up, whose not been in a Pub and asked for a "jar" of Beer?

Jarra, sure, jar? I don't think so

Anyways up, whose not been in a Pub and asked for a "jar" of Beer?

I bet you also ask for [i]a flagoon of ale my good man[/i] and hand over your personalised pewter jug 😉

Actually that's a good point, the battle re-enactment folk always have their own drinking vessels so are they the [i]original hipsters[/i]?

Hipsters are so funny. They all try so hard to be different yet look identical with beards, sweepy hair and tattoo sleeves. My boss has just grown the beard and developed swoopy hair so that means the look must now be culturally bankrupt (think david Brent's leather jacket)

it is that bizarre bit of fashion where in an attempt to be an individual you behave like everyone else.

I always remember a scene in a club where all the moody types got up to rage against the machine then jumped up en masse and in unison screamed "**** you I wont do what you tell me". Clearly i thought to myself.

The other half of me things better to dress as a tit as kid/yoof/young adult as its still better than being boring.

10,000 identical looking greebos in a field singing "there's only one way of life...and that's your own,your own,your own"

I always remember a scene in a club where all the moody types got up to rage against the machine then jumped up en masse and in unison screamed "**** you I wont do what you tell me". Clearly i thought to myself.

Shirley that's more a matter of a group of people, who may well be highly individualistic, collectively expressing their frustration and resistance towards the same idea.

TBH it reminded me of "yes we are all individuals " from Life of Brian

Think of all those flared trousers they could re-cycle.....no thought not.

Drinking out of jam jars is something I can remember from trips to America in the 70's, and as people have already said, it probably dates back to prohibition or earlier.

The barbs at 'hipsters' in this thread, do read a little bit like jealousy.

Here in China, it is quite normal for them to use Jars for drinking tea of it.
Why pay for a bottle, when you can re-use a Jar for it.

One of the Chinese post grads used to use a baked bean tin to store pens on her desk. I bet you could sell them in a trendy shop for a fiver 😉

They all try so hard to be different yet look identical

I'm not buying the 'upcycling' and environmentally friendly excuse. I'll bet none of them are an old Robinsons or Sainsbury's jar, they'll be some kind of urban chic, expensively purchased fashion statement.

Bit like they are not actually their sisters jeans.

The barbs at 'hipsters' in this thread, do read a little bit like jealousy.

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environmental push back

Been around for ages used a lot in cocktail bars just a glass.

Funny thing is the OP would happily post pictures of a pouncy whisky glass that has a slight tilt.

Holding on to a cup on a RN ship was like holding onto your hat at a hat thieves convention, an empty pot noodle vessel was my cup of choice, took about ten brews for the chicken and mushroom flavour to dissipate.

I have plenty of empty strawberry jam jars I want to recycle should I just sell them to the hipsters for £2 per jar? I have washed them ... 😀

You have to ask yourself what's worse - following a fashion trend, or sneering at people for being different to you. I think I know the answer.

Errrr. Jealous of what exactly?

Marmite jar FTW

grum - Member

You have to ask yourself what's worse - following a fashion trend, or sneering at people for being different to you. I think I know the answer.

I have no problem with hipsters but if I can sell them my jam jars why not? I just want to supplement my income which at the moment is rather low. 😮

Not like when I was a lad and my mum got all my clothes at C&A"

You have to ask yourself what's worse - following a fashion trend, or sneering at people for being different to you. I think I know the answer.

PS you seem to be sneering at some folk for reaching a different conclusion from you.

* I am not I am merely pointing out the irony

I actually agree with grum, but then again ive been a tattooed bearded wooly hat wearing ugly fker since before most the new wave of hipsters were born...I'll still look like a grumpy tramp when im old and decrepit, itstnot always a trend some folks just find a "bollox that's comfortable" style and stick with it. Like outdoor types in ancient fleece jackets and fossilised brashers drinking from battered sig bottles

While I'm familiar with Mason jars in the States, and using them to drink out of, among other uses, I'm afraid that the drinking out of jam jars in the UK was a phenomenon that had totally passed my notice.
Perhaps it's a thing in the faster-paced urban centres, it hasn't yet filtered down to the drinking establishments in small North Wiltshire villages, where I habitually drink.
And I'm far too hip to be a hipster, anyway... 😉

Like outdoor types in ancient fleece jackets and fossilised brashers drinking from battered sig bottles

Wow I agree with tazzy - that must be a first! 🙂

JY - you could level the same accusation at pretty much every sub-culture/fashion movement throughout history, so it's a bit of a redundant point.

And it's quite a stretch to claim that saying that sneering at people is bad is the same as sneering at people. And yes I've probably been guilty of it in the past.

slowoldman - Member
Like outdoor types in ancient fleece jackets and fossilised brashers drinking from battered sig bottles

The sheep only has one fleece.

Bum Tish. They do have shittier arses too - generally. The sheep that is.

I never really understand why anyone would drink out of anything but the skulls of their vanquished enemies.

But, I remember seeing Mat Hoffman drinking out of a jam jar, therefore, it's OK.

Look at these hipsters, and their full heads of hair and all their teeth. Hanging out in coffee shops with their laptops and phones planning which club or band to go and watch. Probably full of girls too. Hipster girls. Drinking out of jam jars. What a dreadful state of affairs. Not like when I was a lad and my mum got all my clothes at C&A"

I guess a jam jar next to your lap top, is like having a gonk next to your sinclair back in the day.

Just remember to tip the nails out first

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you could level the same accusation at pretty much every sub-culture/fashion movement throughout history,

Personally just find it a little contrived but that may well be my view of fashion or a result of my age/cynicism.

@mark90 - I thought of Gibbs and his habit of tipping the nails out of a jar then putting whiskey into it, but didn't get round to finding a photo.
I suppose the added iron could be beneficial to the drinkers health...

@mark90,ironic too considering that Gibbs tips nails out of the jar,drink enough and you too get hammered!