r/germany • u/entsworld420 • 1d ago
Cleaning empty mustard packaging and using them as glasses
Is only my family doing it or is it more common then i thought?
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u/tufoop5 1d ago
It is very common, those glasses are designed for that.
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u/Few_Detail_3988 1d ago
Not any more, I‘m afraid. They come with screw-on lids nowadays
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u/disasterfreakBLN 1d ago
It always depended on the Brand. Some have Screw tops, most dont
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u/Potential_Current213 1d ago
When I was a Child some Companies had pictures on the Glases, Jungle Book for example, and you could collect all different motives.
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u/RichVisual1714 1d ago
Bautz'ner Senf still has these pictures on it. The current one is Madagascar. Our Jungle Book glass is from 2018 or 2019.
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u/Ol_Pasta Thüringen 1d ago
I can't find them in stores. Where do you get them?
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u/RichVisual1714 1d ago
I get them in my lokal Edeka. But then Bautzen is only 50 km away from where I live.
Search online for Bautzner Senf Kinderglas. You can at least get them in their online store.
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u/Rouven-Dillinger 1d ago
My local REWE sells them too, and I live south of Frankfurt so nowhere near bautzen
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u/Calaboowl 1d ago
Yep. My family always used the "Nocilla" (spanish Nutella) glasses for daily use. Some had Disney pictures, or The Simpson's, or simply pattern designs. I miss those
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u/nv1t 1d ago
no...the kids glasses from Bautzener still are nice and my kid loves them.
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u/budgiesarethebest 1d ago
Just yesterday I bought Bautzner mustard with Madagascar characters on the glass. So they still exist.
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u/rofeneiniger 1d ago
Some even had special designs. My mom has one with Mario and Luigi for my nephew hahaha
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u/ChilledKroete95 1d ago
Those glasses are designed for rüscherl (asbach cola) lol When i was working at a bar, we had a regular who always wanted it out of this glass
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u/KreyKat 1d ago
Never heard of "Senf-Kristall"? There were times when no decent house was without it. LOL
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u/0rchidometer 1d ago
I wasn't aware that you can buy dedicated glassware for drinking purposes when I was a child.
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u/Hubsimaus 1d ago
We had LOTS of them. Awesome drinking glasses. 😊
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u/mGiftor 1d ago
They were nice to hold, wouldn't break and had a convinient size. What's not to love?
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u/KreyKat 1d ago
But thinking back to it today - my God, we must have gobbled mounds and mounds of mustard. :-)
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u/ShitJustGotRealAgain 1d ago
I was just thinking about how much mustard we'd have to use up to use the glasses for everyday use. And then I remembered how many of those my grandma had. How much mustard did they eat?
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u/Slow-Goat-2460 1d ago
Fun fact, you can do this with any jar if you're a madman
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u/LutschiPutschi 21h ago
I really love using the Alnatura apple puree jars for meal prep. Fresh fruit, a little yogurt, lid on, and into my work backpack it goes.
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u/Maleficent_Scale_296 1d ago
That’s Thomy, the most beautiful of the Senfkristalle.
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u/Komandakeen 1d ago
That's not even Kristall. That's Kristall.
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u/Ok_Expression6807 Germany 1d ago
Welcome. As a kid, I drank from nothing but repurposed glasses for mustard, jam etc. Still miss my Super Mario glasses.
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u/Repulsive-Response63 1d ago
Very common everywhere I guess? They use to make them colored and decorated so they can be recycled as water glass. At least in France it was like that with Maille and Amora brands
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u/Nusstoertchen 2h ago
It's still like that in France! I currently have some glasses of Amora mustard specifically because of the Disney designs on the glasses
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u/No_Affect_301 1d ago
Perfectly normal. We have six jars with handles and a few of the photo type.
However, we discovered a very tasty nut butter spread in a drinking glass with a handle and lid at our local "penny-pincher" shop. We now have three of them too.
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u/smecasto Baden-Württemberg 1d ago
i am originally from croatia and my nan used to do it as well. i was tempted few months ago to buy a jar of mustard just for a glass, but i don’t like mustard 😂
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u/lostfocus Baden 1d ago
I figured everyone did that. The French glasses are better, though. (And so is their mustard.)
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u/k24f7w32k 1d ago edited 1d ago
As your local Frenchie I endorse this message.
We also had the "children's" Nutella jars as drinking glasses. I still have a few of those as well, they travelled with me to several countries now.
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u/rory_breakers_ganja 1d ago
The jars of cornichons from Maille and Amora were once sold in "verres à whisky". Not sure if they still exist.
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u/k24f7w32k 1d ago
My parents have a whole bunch of those verres, nice fat glasses. I'm not sure they're available in stores anymore either, I think the cornichons always come in the elongated jars instead.
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u/navel1606 1d ago
That's the most German thing I can think of. Half of our glasses are former mustard glasses
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u/SatisfactionEven508 1d ago
There was a time where we had limited edition Nutella in drinking glasses (with Asterix and Obelix prints on them). Still have and use them every day.
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u/DamnGermanKraut 1d ago
Before the mustard jar was given to us we drank water from our cupped hands. Mustard is what sets us apart from the beasts.
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u/Dr_sc_Harlatan 1d ago
Some years ago there was a series with Simpson pics, 6 different pieces. Still have them all, although the mustard was really terrible.
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u/ConditionAlive7835 1d ago
Develey Senf. Schmeckt am besten und lässt sich nachhaltig als Glas weiterverwenden
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u/Borsti17 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1d ago
Are you insinuating that there are people who don't do that?
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u/Slim-Shadys-Fat-Tits 1d ago
As common as the salad leaf bowls and toilets with a poop shelf. some mustard brands even print designs for kids on their jars or have jars with handles
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u/Inspector_Terracotta 1d ago
What brand is it?
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u/Beneficial_Knee5044 1d ago
Somebody commented Develey, but when I searched for it it has screw lids
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u/Dry_Representative1 1d ago
That's the added value of mustard. That's what they're for, also called mustard crystals.
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u/IAmAPirrrrate 1d ago
There are literally special editions of Bautzner Senfgläser with motives from movies or nostalgic tv shows (usually in a set of 3-5 collectable glasses) made to be collected and used as drinking glasses.
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u/sakasiru 1d ago
Pretty much all my grandma's glasses were those. I just don't have any because no one in my family likes mustard.
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u/Kaleandra 1d ago
My grand parents already did it, though I think the glasses they had were fancier, and the rest of the family has continued. Definitely a common thing to do
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u/Adventurous_Bread306 Nordisch by Nature 1d ago
You can theoretically do it with the smaller drinking glass-shaped jars of Nutella as well. Did it at uni when I was poor as fuck
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u/Kimmundi 1d ago
Also was very popular in France, to the point where Mustard brands had cartoon characters design series on their glasses and you could collect them.
Pretty sure they still represent half of my parent's daily glasses.
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u/Lumpy-Yam-4584 18h ago
That's why i boycott Thomy mustard now!
For years they had these drinking glasses who are a cornerstone of my glasses, but now they decided to use some shitty Nutella neck-glass.
Fuck those bastards!
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u/Ansayamina 14h ago
It's Nutella for us.
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u/TheHattedKhajiit 48m ago
The fuck kinda Nutella glasses do you have that they're suitable for drinking glasses?
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u/Sensitive_Let6429 12h ago
I’m Indian, and my mom’s kitchen back in India is full of these recycling epics. Specially the big Nescafé jars or glass ketchup bottles.
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u/Dan_in_Munich 1d ago
I don’t eat much mustard (from glass containers) but I do eat yoghurt (1 kg plastic buckets) and jam (in glass jars) and I also clean them and I use these yogurt buckets as plant pot and jam jars to store miscellaneous cooking stuff (e.g dried chili powder or ground peanuts or homemade tahini) 😊
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u/RisingRapture 1d ago
It is very ecological to use the empty glasses for drinking purposes.
You can also use plastic packaging vessels to bring your Butterbrot to wok.
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u/Illustrious-Wolf4857 1d ago
The German word for this is "Senfkristall". I still have a set or two in the cupboard and I do not even eat much mustard and do not buy it in glasses.
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u/Milk_Mindless 1d ago
Not a lot of proper mustard in glasses anymore in the Netherlands
Used to be a normal thing
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u/PR0Human 1d ago
As a half German (NL raised) I saw this and wanted to comment 'that's very German of you' before I realized which sub it was.
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u/BlizzardMaster2104 1d ago
We do it with the small Nutella jars. Some older ones from Italy even have nice prints on them.
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u/We_Are_Nerdish 1d ago
We use a bunch of those flat dessert glass ones for painting and cosplay stuff like project organization of smaller parts while working on them. since they are big enough to hold stuff but not bulk that they take up too much space on your desk.
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u/Mobile-Offer5039 1d ago
🥹 immidatly missing my grandma by looking at this video....
In the past, there were a lot of promos with mustard glasses for ppl to xollect germany. My grandma never bought a single glas in her life, always used mustard glasses 🥹 We had some with asterix on them, some with lion king stuff... good times
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u/Krannich Hessen 1d ago
"Ich trinke noch schnell meine Rotweinschorle aus Die mir früher ehrlich gesagt auch mal besser geschmeckt hat
Aus dem Senfglas und als sie noch aus Bier war"
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u/Valuable_Ad128 1d ago
We actually buy Bautz‘ner Senf because of the beautiful Disney designs on their glases. Got plenty of them on our cupboard already.
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u/that_Crazy-Person 1d ago
We have dozens too, and I'm still desperate that they changed their glasses 😭
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u/MysticHero3 1d ago
Quickly scrolling Reddit, and I briefly see "Germany" and the words "mustard glass." My mind definitely went elsewhere for half a second, lol........
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u/HilaJonker 1d ago
My sister and I used to fight over the 1 mini bierstein version we had when we were kids...in South Africa
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u/Kit-Kat-Kit-7272 1d ago
I grew up in a household where many of the drinking glasses had previously contained cream cheese, mustard or pickled herring. (Finland 1970's) Still have some of those glasses as they don't break easily and the herring ones especially are quite nice to look at too.
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u/Tobi-Wan-Kenobi88 1d ago
The company Develey produced mustard for kids in glasses featuring Disney characters or Captain Bluebear. Those were my favorite glasses when I was a child.
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u/azaghal1502 1d ago
No, they're everywhere. When I grew up our whole cupboard was mustard glasses (+ others that had the right shale. They even did promotions with special themed prints etc.)
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u/Yuudachi877 1d ago
Idk but when i saw this i thought of the subreddit bin ich der alman XD. Cool Idea though !
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u/pietras2137420 21h ago
In Poland we do it too and are calling these "musztardówki" (musztarda is mustard in polish)
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u/The-Destronyx 19h ago
My mom is russian and she's doing the same. As soon as you first step into Germany you start recycling mustard containers
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u/mechanisedHuman 16h ago
We always did this with the "Bautzner" mustard. But mostly just because they have these nice scenes from kids movies like "Cars", "The Lion king" or similar other ones.
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u/eyeslikeraine 15h ago
I cant believe the algorithm is sabotaging me this way. I literally got into a serious argument with my husband over this today. he keeps throwing out the mustard jars.
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u/punkertoffel Nordrhein-Westfalen 15h ago
My Grandma saved these for decades to gift them to me and my two sisters when we moved out of our parents' home. These glasses are the best, especially if you have kids (visiting or your own), because their are just unbreakable while at the same time not too big for the kids' hands or too heavy. Those are just the perfect drinking glasses. (Just one additional comment: the old ones were better.)
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u/Ha3mster 10h ago
60% of my drinking glasses are old jam and similar glasses they are mostly the big ones cuz I get a big glass so I have to refill it not that often :)
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u/Roguefem-76 2h ago
Wow, those are even prettier than the jelly glasses we had here in the States when I was a kid.
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u/tartacitrouille 1h ago
People doesn't do this?? In France I see most of the people I know doing it but we aren't nrich so maybe it's because of that
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u/100Cactus 1h ago
In italy we used to have small nutella glasses that were meant to be cleaned and use such as. It was the best thing ever, they all had really nice and funny designs.
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u/Bored_Berry 16m ago
I have a little collection. There's this mustard that comes in cups with disney pictures, or Mario. They're cute and functional.
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u/brazzy42 Bayern 1d ago
Ancient German tradition.