# olives in glass jars

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olives-in-glass-jars/533668>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 24, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olives-in-glass-jars/533668 "2010-03-24T20:32:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![wyfarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5daacb/32.png) [@wyfarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyfarm)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olives-in-glass-jars/533668/1 "2010-03-24T20:32:23Z")

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In the column on why green olives came in glass jars and black olives came in cans, you said that glass wouldn’t stand the heat of processing. I don’t think that is true as my parents used glass jars to can everything that they canned and they proccessed in both a hot water bath and a pressure cooker.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olives-in-glass-jars/533668/2 "2010-03-29T19:25:15Z")

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Thanks for visiting us here at the Straight Dope, wyfarm.

It’s always nice to reference the column you are commenting on, in this case here:

> **[Why is it that green olives come in glass jars but black olives come in cans?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343971/why-is-it-that-green-olives-come-in-glass-jars-but-black-olives-come-in-cans)**
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> A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olives-in-glass-jars/533668/3 "2010-03-29T19:26:12Z")

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And since it’s a Staff Report rather than a column I have moved it to the proper forum area.

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**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olives-in-glass-jars/533668/4 "2010-04-28T06:18:13Z")

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I rather think that the report is in need of a little updating. It seems to create rather more confusion than most, and as it stands is clearly incomplete.

Two previous threads have already done the subject to death.

> **[Olives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534824)**
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> If you cook sealed cans they won’t explode, but jars will? Sorry, but I’m not getting that… Seems to me, a sealed can will burst quite nicely when heat is applied. My misspent youth taught me a few things, anyway…

> **[No black olives in glass bottles?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=526495)**
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> Eutychus, In the posting on olives, http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2885/why-is-it-that-green-olives-come-in-glass-jars-but-black-olives-come-in-cans you stated: So you can’t process artificially ripened olives in jars – the glass...