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TigerAce lemmy.dbzer0.com TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-13
#52 · Quote Reply

It's where you hold the bottle when you drink it. Keep your pinky in the air. Everyone will know you are a gentleman / lady.

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TechnicallyWrite lemmy.world TechnicallyWrite@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-19
#53 · Quote Reply

it’s to keep the butthole from closing around the top in a manner that would be dangerous.

You’re telling me I’m supposed to stop before the loop?

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Captain_Buddha lemmy.world Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-21
#54 · Quote Reply

Wait do non-canadians not have the little sixth digit on their hands for carrying these bottles??

Sadly, no...Our heads also don't flap about when we talk.
Makes it really obvious when you're an American trying to pass yourself off as Canadian abroad.

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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-05-30
#55 · (edited) Quote Reply

Also, that cap always makes a sticky mess.

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flandish lemmy.world flandish@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-08
#56 · Quote Reply

You’re telling me I’m supposed to stop before the loop?

depends on where you start. ;)

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Funkt4st1c lemmy.world Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-30
#57 · Quote Reply

Also, that cap always makes a sticky mess.

Lick it clean before screwing the lid back on

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CannedYeet lemmy.world CannedYeet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#58 · Quote Reply

Wait do non-canadians not have the little sixth digit on their hands for carrying these bottles??

Dew claws?

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🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸 sh.itjust.works Flower@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-04-29
#59 · Quote Reply

Syrup used to be stored in large, thick, clay jugs, a gallon or more. These vessels were pored by means of resting them on your shoulder and hooking a finger (or two!) into the loop for control. These smaller bottles have vestigial loops.

Now it's just good enough for hanging a fancy price tag.

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kestrel7_7 lemmy.world kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-31
#60 · Quote Reply

Just take the cap off and microwave it like a normal person from the past 2 centuries.

Dawg, I don't even have a microwave. Fuckin kitchen gadgets smdh

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InputZero lemmy.world InputZero@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
#61 · Quote Reply

There so you can hook them to a Carabiner and carry them with you. As is tradition.

It's like no one has heard of hiking syrup before.

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InputZero lemmy.world InputZero@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
#62 · Quote Reply

Sadly, no...Our heads also don't flap about when we talk. Makes it really obvious when you're an American trying to pass yourself off as Canadian abroad.

Hey! Screw you buddeh!

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NABDad lemmy.world NABDad@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#63 · Quote Reply

Are you living in Canada? Maybe no one has to bother to persuade you to pass up the Mrs. Butterworth.

Sacrilege!

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Whostosay sh.itjust.works Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-07-16
#64 · Quote Reply

In 3 million years these bottles will look like crabs

My mind is going to South Park, but I feel like there's something more here. Care to outline it for a dummy?

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uderecife piefed.world uderecife@piefed.world
Joined: 2026-02-18
#65 · Quote Reply

My mind is going to South Park, but I feel like there's something more here. Care to outline it for a dummy?

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

An obscure phenomenon for much of the time since its discovery, carcinisation has become more widely known since 2019, having been the subject of a popular internet meme.

And

Beginning in 2019, carcinisation has found popularity as an internet meme. This parodies carcinisation, purporting that crabs possess the "ideal body plan" and conceptualizing the evolution of other animal groups, especially vertebrates, of eventually developing crab-like bodies (often being examples of speculative evolution).

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ddplf szmer.info ddplf@szmer.info
Joined: 2024-08-08
#66 · Quote Reply

Lick it clean before screwing the lid back on

Can you record yourself doing it to show us how it should be done?

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Captain_Buddha lemmy.world Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-21
#67 · Quote Reply

Hey! Screw you buddeh!

I'm not your buddeh, guy!

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Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
#68 · Quote Reply

Dunno origin, but id throw a rope or small chain into loop and attach next to saddle of my horse or maybe belt of my pants, so i'd keep it around all the time. It's for carrying.

Do you even have a horse? Or pants?

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
#69 · Quote Reply

Its a useless leftover from when the containers were stone jugs.

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tiramichu sh.itjust.works tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#70 · Quote Reply

Its a useless leftover from when the containers were stone jugs.

What were they for on stone jugs, if they were just as small? Or were they not?

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surewhynotlem lemmy.world surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#71 · Quote Reply

Have you been eating your syrup cold this whole time?

Like a fucking heathen, apparently.

I never knew... I never knew..

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Aerosol3215 piefed.ca Aerosol3215@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-01-12
#72 · Quote Reply

In Canada, the maple elfs are the ones that collect the syrup. After the great syrup catastropy of 1909, we learned the hard lesson that the elf rings (that is the technical name for these loops) could not exceed a standard unit elf-span. In Canada, we have a saying: "standards and codes are written in syrup. "

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yoriaiko lemmy.blahaj.zone yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-03-10
#73 · Quote Reply

Do you even have a horse? Or pants?

Yes

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BigPotato lemmy.world BigPotato@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
#74 · Quote Reply

Syrup used to be stored in large, thick, clay jugs, a gallon or more. These vessels were pored by means of resting them on your shoulder and hooking a finger (or two!) into the loop for control. These smaller bottles have vestigial loops.

Next you're going to tell me we drank honey straight from the full-sized bear, aren't you?

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
#75 · Quote Reply

What were they for on stone jugs, if they were just as small? Or were they not?

The jugs were not that small and the loop was much bigger. I had my first drink of alcohol out of a stone jug. It was moonshine and the jug had originally been a maple syrup jug.

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marduk lemmy.today marduk@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-11-24
#76 · Quote Reply

It's like no one has heard of hiking syrup before.

The syrup replenishes what you lose through diarrhea as you push to the top of the mountain

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot lemmy.world WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#77 · Quote Reply

Its a useless leftover from when the containers were stone jugs.

They still are. Just melted stone.

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Hossenfeffer feddit.uk Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-06-14
#78 · Quote Reply

You can also put the bottle in the microwave for a few seconds. Keep a close eye on it though, things can go bad really quickly when you do that. Edit: be sure to remove the cap first!

No, wedge that cap closed as hard as you can! Live life on the edge!

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Leviathan lemmy.world Leviathan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#79 · Quote Reply

I think the shape is supposed to be reminiscent of a gallon jug, where the handle actually fits a grown human's finger. By scaling it down we're left with a handle that feels idiotic.

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rizzothesmall sh.itjust.works rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-22
#80 · Quote Reply

They still are. Just melted stone.

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
#81 · Quote Reply

They still are. Just melted stone.

Silica is a mineral. aka Quartz and it will melt. Stone jugs are made from clay and is vitrified not melted. its fired in a kiln like brick.

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CyberneticOwl lemmy.world CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-21
#82 · Quote Reply

You mean Canadians don't have them attached to their belts like a hip flask?

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SirActionSack aussie.zone SirActionSack@aussie.zone
Joined: 2024-12-29
#83 · Quote Reply

Hmm. Okay. I suppose the bottle might be hot even if you don't completely submerge it. But, then what, do you hold it with a gloved hand? If it's not that hot, then why would I need a hook? I accept this is the intended use, I just don't see it being particularly useful that way. It's also possible this is just vestigial decoration from the older, larger jugs.

Heat transfer is not instant. It is proportional to the difference in temperature between the two objects. I assume you know that.

Lowering the bottle into very hot water for a short time will warm the syrup. The water may be too hot to touch but the bottle is not necessary too hot to touch after being dipped.

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PlantDadManGuy lemmy.world PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
#84 · Quote Reply

Its a useless leftover from when the containers were stone jugs.

Vestigial handle?

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Treczoks lemmy.world Treczoks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#85 · Quote Reply

Also, that cap always makes a sticky mess.

How is that a problem when you properly jug it down in one go?

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MrShankles reddthat.com MrShankles@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#86 · Quote Reply

It's to hang it from a tree so the bears and ants can't get it

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GreenKnight23 lemmy.world GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-21
#87 · Quote Reply

is-is it not where you hold it with your prehensile penis?

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IphtashuFitz lemmy.world IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-23
#88 · Quote Reply

In Canada, the maple elfs are the ones that collect the syrup. After the great syrup catastropy of 1909, we learned the hard lesson that the elf rings (that is the technical name for these loops) could not exceed a standard unit elf-span. In Canada, we have a saying: "standards and codes are written in syrup. "

After the great syrup catastropy of 1909

Was that anything like The Great Molasses Flood?

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grrgyle slrpnk.net grrgyle@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-03-18
#89 · Quote Reply

I think the shape is supposed to be reminiscent of a gallon jug, where the handle actually fits a grown human's finger. By scaling it down we're left with a handle that feels idiotic.

Vestigial

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GraniteM lemmy.world GraniteM@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-11
#90 · Quote Reply

Syrup used to be stored in large, thick, clay jugs, a gallon or more. These vessels were pored by means of resting them on your shoulder and hooking a finger (or two!) into the loop for control. These smaller bottles have vestigial loops.

Proper drinking technique demonstrated (on left):

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#91 · Quote Reply

Same thing with tiny coffee cups. What the fuck is up with that. I can pinch it sure, but I don't wanna.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#92 · (edited) Quote Reply

is-is it not where you hold it with your prehensile penis?

I mean that's not what it was designed for but if it works for you...

Shit who even knows what it was designed for.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#93 · Quote Reply

It's to hang it from a tree so the bears and ants can't get it

10 million ants vs 1 grizzly bear.

Who wins?

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#94 · Quote Reply

You mean Canadians don't have them attached to their belts like a hip flask?

As is the fashion of the time!

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#95 · Quote Reply

Vestigial

Extra cost of glass handle < increased sales from cuteness

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#96 · Quote Reply

After the great syrup catastropy of 1909 Was that anything like The Great Molasses Flood?

Instantly sprang to mind!

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#97 · Quote Reply

Its a useless leftover from when the containers were stone jugs.

Hah! Dumb stone agers!

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#98 · (edited) Quote Reply

Silica is a mineral. aka Quartz and it will melt. Stone jugs are made from clay and is vitrified not melted. its fired in a kiln like brick.

You must be fun at parties!

No I actually mean that, I would listen to this shit drunk until way early morning.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#99 · Quote Reply

it’s to keep the butthole from closing around the top in a manner that would be dangerous.

Behind every OSHA directive there is a harrowing tale.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#100 · Quote Reply

depends on where you start. ;)

Depends on skill level really.

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[object Object] lemmy.world SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-11-03
#101 · (edited) Quote Reply

Found Adam Ragusea's Lemmy account.

Finally! At least Adam Ragusea probably understands that mayonnaise or sour cream shouldn't be mixed with ketchup or mustard, but should be put side-by-side with them so both are tasted separately at the same time.

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