CAN this thing with the mason jars end now?

Using jars in lieu actual glasses has been a thing for a few years now. As is usually the case with my razor-sharp awareness of social trends, I learned about this one some months after someone had given me one (full of lollies), when I wondered aloud why it had been made with a handle.

Look, I have no problem with improvised drinking vessels, plates, furniture, whatever - and on one level using jars as glasses makes good environmental sense. It's a great way to re-use them and regular glasses generally aren't even recyclable.

That said, it's not like it's a new idea. Remember those little Vegemite jars that were designed to be used as glasses once you'd eaten the Vegemite and washed and scrubbed it about 15 times (somehow even then they still seemed, to me at least, to hold taste slightly of Vegemite).

So, I've generally happily ignored the jar as drinking glass thing, up until last week when I came across a milkshake in a jar.

The milkshake was awesome, don't get me wrong, but why a jar? Is there any non-alcoholic drinking vessel more aesthetically pleasing that one of those old metal milkshake cups? I used to love those things as a kid and then they were replac- ed by cardboard cups and now we put them in jars.

It just doesn't seem right.