mumblelard asked: Can a small hexagonal glass jar of kumquat honey be accurately referred to as a small pot of kumquat honey?
Without wishing to delve too far into the historical debate surrounding the definition of a ‘jar’ with regards to shape and method of sealing and the definition of a ‘pot’ with regards to shape and method of sealing, I feel I can safely say that the most interesting thing about honey in a hexagonal container is that honey is produced in much smaller hexagonal containers to begin with.
And so putting honey in a hexagonal jar/pot is much like moving from your house into a house made of glass where everything has been made from glass to many many times the normal scale. You would not even be able to get onto the sofa without suction cups and climbing gear, and even if you managed to get onto the sofa, it wouldn’t be very comfortable because it would be made of glass.
(The key text here being J Seinfeld’s confusion and anger re: the human appropriation of honey in ‘Bee Movie’, a film which — despite its leaden anti-union message and the presence of Renee Zellweger – I quite enjoyed!)
(Also related is a recent Simpsons episode in which they did the mysterious disappearance of the bees thing and Homer had that vision of a post-apocalpytic world without honey where a robot that looked like WALL-E came up to him and offered him some real honey but it was a terrible trap and he was squished by the robot into a tiny box.)
And once you thought you were safely installed in the house, the roof would occasionally be twisted off by a giant pinkish tentacle which would suck out the sweetness of your essence before replacing the house in a very dark place, leaving you with nothing to do except wonder if there is a god or not.
