Comment on Meanwhile Ball

BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.

  John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_jar

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    May be a region thing. A Ball jar is equally genericized and supplants mason especially when used literally. There are still Ball branded ball jars here… not mason… I’ll check but I don’t think they even use mason in the description.

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Muncie, Indiana is the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.

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    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you don’t have a Ball cookbook, do you really cook?

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But what style is a Ball Jar?

      If Ball makes a Mason jar, its still a Mason jar, so are all other jars made by Ball judt ambiguously “Ball” jars? Or is there a specific design that is referred to as a Ball jar?

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, currently Ball doesn’t make any jars, as I understand it. And I don’t think it’s in Muncie anymore either. So the term is just a holdover.

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  • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!

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