An irish lady goes to see her mother
Posted by Aggravating_Car2900@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 24 comments
...in the old country. She arrives at her cottage and sees her finishing jarring some preserves. The mother is excited to see her and says she will make some tea as soon as she is finished. Hurriedly, she finishes her jarring and climbs atop the counter to store them on the top shelf of her kitchen. The daughter scolds her for unsafely climbing on the counter, she scowls her and says to wait until she can fetch a stepstool so she can reach up safely.
Undeterred, the mother keeps going loading her big jars atop the high shelf, pleased with her days work. One by one she hoists the large heavy jars up and onto the old shelf. As she loads the last jar, she carefully makes her way down but looks up aghast as she hears a low rumble of a jar sliding off the rickety old shelf above.
She panics, looses her footing and falls to the floor, helpless, watching the massive jars fall, BANG, one on the floor, CRASH, on on the counter and finally one square on her head. The daughter hears the calamity from downstairs and rushes down "mammy!, mammy!?". BANG, SMASH as the jars crash down.
The daughter bursts through the kitchen door, witnessing the carnage in front of her, and exclaimes "oh no! They Kilner!"
Appropriate_Steak486@reddit
"Don't worry, she'll Weck up soon!"
piper63-c137@reddit
kilner = mason jar in north america
Appropriate_Steak486@reddit
Or Weck
cloud1445@reddit
Do you have to be Irish to get this one?
mordecai98@reddit
I know what a Kilner jar is, but still don't get it.
cloud1445@reddit
Yeah I get that. But what's a Kilner?
GiovanniVanBroekhoes@reddit
A kilner jar is a glass jar with a glass lid, the lid normally has a rubber seal and a metal frame so you can close it tightly. Often used when making preserves.
piper63-c137@reddit
called Mason Jars in north america
ZeroPenguinParty@reddit
There is a story that Raymond Burr kept his set after he finished with a particular tv series.
piper63-c137@reddit
raymond burr was ‘ironsides’? a tv detectville show from the 70s?
ZeroPenguinParty@reddit
Plus he was the original "Perry Mason" in the original tv series and original telemovies.
GiovanniVanBroekhoes@reddit
We have mason jars too, but they normally come with a screw top.
piper63-c137@reddit
yes, we have the lever lids too. less common these days.
Unique_Anywhere5735@reddit
Sorry. D minus.
Srikandi715@reddit
So in Ireland, do you use the verb "jarring" to refer to preserving fruit etc in jars? Because where I live, that's still called "canning", even though it's in jars.
I found this use of the term... quite jarring 😉
Ausmith1@reddit
Never heard that term in Ireland.
Nor would we say “preserves”. It’s called “jam”
speculatrix@reddit
Jams are a subset of preserves, marmalade would be another.
Ausmith1@reddit
I know, but nobody says “preserves” in day to day usage in Ireland.
apartment1i@reddit
This was way worse than I expected
ConcernFlat3391@reddit
Does Kilner have a double meaning?
Gandgareth@reddit
Kilner is a brand of preserving jar.
ConcernFlat3391@reddit
Thank you, that explains it 😎
MrJim63@reddit
Killing her
Geriatric48@reddit
Wouldn’t sound right if it “Vacoled” her