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[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar... Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_jar

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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 just ambiguously "Ball" jars? Or is there a specific design that is referred to as a Ball jar?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 15 hours ago

Ball doesn't even make Mason jars anymore, though.