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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by _Microft on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:06AM (#22726940)
A very popular reuse of an item in Germany is using the glass that a certain brand of mustard comes in as drinking glasses. It even says, or at least used to say, on the label that this is a popular thing. Most people I know have a few of them.

[0] https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=senf%20tommy%20glas

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by rauhl on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:16AM (#22727750)
When I was a boy, we used to use empty mole jars the same way!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mole+jar+glass&t=h_&iax=images&ia=...

It never occurred to me back then that it was unusual …

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by flyingfences on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:23AM (#22728239)
There's a brand (French, I think) of Jam [0] that's widely available in stores here in America; I've found that their jars make fine rocks glasses once the jam is all used up.

[0] https://assets.bonappetit.com/photos/5981f6d764829819a9174b4...

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by undersuit on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:22PM (#22729293)
The majority of my drinking glass is mason jars I have recycled from my Adams Peanut Butter purchases.
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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by rags2riches on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:49AM (#22735010)
Mustard advertising in Sweden has made point of it as well[0]. An image search for "senapsglas" yields examples of glasses from different manufacturers of mustard[1] (although some hits seem to be for snapsglas which is something different).

[0] http://precisensan.com/antikforum/attachment.php?attachmenti...

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Senapsglas&t=h_&iar=images&iax=ima...

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by daotoad on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:40PM (#22732088)
I grew up in the US and we kept jars from Kraft cheese spread. We used this size glass for orange juice or soda.

They're about the same size as mole jars.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zNsjQ5MY5zSgafB9A

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by moron4hire on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:38AM (#22727510)
Here in America, we use recycled glass jars to hold bent nails and rusty screws.
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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by _Microft on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:05PM (#22741199)
Yes, that too, or for storing wood glue for example.
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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by RugnirViking on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:32AM (#22746799)
We used to use old nutella jars from france that had lovely images of asterix and obelix on them as glasses. We had a full set back in the day, which was great!
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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by m4rtink on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:16AM (#22726995)
Cucumber glasses make nice (big) drinking glasses as well. :)

You can even put a lid back on it if you fear it might spill (eq. on a cluttered desk).

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by baud147258 on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:14AM (#22727371)
There's the same thing in France too
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