Posted by Kari on October 04, 2002 at 13:13:05:
Sorry to digress from goats but I could sure use some help.
As you may have heard, Bernadin stopped making the lids that fit our quart sealers here in Canada. That includes both the snap lids/rings and the glass lids and rubber rings.
This happened here in Canada right at the very beginning of canning season and there are hundreds of folks left with thousands of jars that are of no value what-so-ever.
I should add that these quart sealers are Gem jars. Anyway--- since I cannot use these jars (at least for what I want to use them for) - this is the question: is there a supplier in the US that makes a quart jar OTHER THAN BERNADIN? IF so, could someone let me know the price of said jars, lids, etc. and would ANYONE be willing to purchase the jars and ship them to me? If I have to buy new jars, it sure won't be from Bernadin.
Not only can I not use my quart jars, I can't use the pints either since they take the same size lids. I feel like boxing the darned things up and sending off to Bernadin telling them to put them where the sun doesn't shine.. They did this without warning, telling no one that they were going to discontinue that size lid, and left thousands of prairie homemakers lid-less!!! It has made the National news; newspapers and such right across Canada. Anyway, sorry to ramble on.
Kari