Mustard jar

The still filled glass in the background could turn into mustard crystal.

Mustard Leman glasses - archaeological finds in Birkholz (Bernau near Berlin)

Mustard jar with the inscription "Aecht Tamborini Senf". The Tamborini & Lucas company was founded in Berlin in 1887 and existed until the post-war period of World War II. They sold mustards, spices, detergents, food and tea. Later the offer was reduced to mustard and vinegar. Soil find in Birkholz (Bernau near Berlin)

A mustard Glass is a packaging product made of glass for mustard .

In addition to the usual disposable glasses with screw caps , many German manufacturers offer glasses that can later be used as drinking glasses . The shape, mostly cylindrical like a Cologne bar (but with a similar volume, wider and not as high) or with a convenient constriction between a heavy base and a slightly goblet-shaped top (see picture), makes it a particularly comfortable drinking glass. Since a particularly stable type of glass is usually used, probably for transport reasons, some of these glasses still appear relatively new even after decades of use. Probably because of this quality and based on lead crystal and well-known manufacturers of high-quality glasses, they are ironically referred to as mustard crystal or Kühne crystal . Kühne had already registered the reusable mustard jar as a "German Reich utility model " in the 1930s .

Especially for children as a target group , mustard jars are often printed with comic motifs.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marketing: a process and practice-oriented introduction
2. ↑ Collection of meaningless things on loosersenf.de
3. ↑ Mustard gives people back a piece of home The conversation was conducted by Viktoria Unterreiner with Michael Durach . In: Welt am Sonntag of July 20, 2008.

Web links

Wiktionary: mustard jar  - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations