JARS - Słoiki. In Poland this has unusual meaning

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There is this fashion for some time now that people serve things in jars. Sometimes it looks cool. Eye catching. But ...there is a BUT.

I went to a restaurant yesterday, ordered ordinary burger, expected to eat from some sort of a plate. 
The dish looked ok, eye catching. But this one small detail - freacking jar and inside of it a salad. It was not comfortable, It was messy and I could not move my hands around the burger. And.... could not stop thinking how do they clean it after serving, especially that the seal was not fresh and clean. It was a bit yellow and it certain parts brown. I just don't dig this phenomenon (tough word) of eating from jars.



Still in the JAR subject. In Poland we have a name for the people returning from home towns to city that they work/live during week. We cal them JARS. As you can actually sometimes hear that sound when jars are touching one another in their bags. It is funny. I mean I have nothing against this - this is one of the best ways to transport liquid stuff and the traditional polish food such as 'bigos'  (hunter's stew) for example. And yes - I also do this so I am a JAR myself.

Oddly interesting:
  • in Warsaw there is a whole restaurant called Jar (Jar is 'Słoik' in polish. Read it like Swoo-eek) that serves food in jars (I have not been there yet).  Link 
  • Still in Warsaw, there is was a competition for my hometown logo. Competition was titled Neon for Warsaw. Artists created a few examples and people could vote online for the best one. One idea was to have a Jars in the logo as there is the greatest number of people working here. This is as Warsaw is the largest city of Poland. And so there are Jars - tones of it. 5462 people voted for neon with Jars. Later it was said that the creators of Jars logo/neon bought facebook likes. Finally the Jars did not win and the logo for Warsaw is now a sentence 'MIŁO CIĘ WIDZIEĆ" that means 'It is nice to see you'. It is visible on a Gdanski bridge. Btw the official symbol of Warsaw is still the Warsaw Siren (Warszawska Syrenka)


The logo on the Gdanski bridge - it says Nice to see you (Miło - nice. Cię - you, widzieć - to see)







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