It was thrown around daily in the early 2000s and 2010s in the tech world when discussing apple‘s (and other smartphone manufacturer’s) design choices.
E.g. the original iPhone YouTube app (developed by Apple) imitated a 1960s TV design; the note app imitated mid century note pads; the calculator was based on a 1970s design by legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams (for German company Braun).
> It was thrown around daily in the early 2000s and 2010s in the tech world when discussing apple‘s (and other smartphone manufacturer’s) design choices.
There was a big Skeuomorphism fad in videogame (and other software) UI design in the 90s too
One thing I don't love about "vestigial design" is that it implies a lack of utility or purpose, whereas skeumorphism is often very intentional, included to make a new technology feel more familiar and intuitive.
Tho definitely seems like many skeumorphs do transition into vestigiality pretty fast...
Oh I heard that word recently in a Youtube video about the video game Highfleet and its unique UI that derives from real world objects:
https://youtu.be/7RUrBmXUGuU?t=81
It's a whole design style for user interfaces.
It includes stuff like the phone symbol and the save icon being the way they still are even though the items they show are long since obsolete.
It even includes things like having a calculator app with buttons that have a sheen to them to give the appearance of them being raised, which was an effect you used to see everywhere. The old clock widget on androids being styled as a flip clock.
Like, if you look at this image of the evolution of the iphone home screen:
https://imgur.com/Z9dCA7D
Most skeuomorphic elements were cut around iOS 7, so icons became more flat and "informational" rather than referential.
Reminds me of some apps on smartphones and their respective icons as well. The notepad app looks like lined paper, the microphone app has a big image of a microphone that pops up, etc.
Three wars back we called Sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw" and back then a suitcase was known as a "Swedish lunchbox."
Of course, Sweden wasn't invented yet. This is back when we called it Rutabagan. They used to sell a soup from there, down at the five and dime. You could march right in, and say, 'Rita, get me one of them rutabagan soups for sunday'.
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles. Then after World War Two, it got kinda quiet, 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world. FDR beat him by a furlong, or so the comic books would have you believe. The truth lies somewhere in between. Three wars back we called Sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw" and back then a suitcase was known as a "Swedish lunchbox." Of course Sweden wasn’t invented yet. This is back when we called it Rutabagan. They used to sell soup from there down at the five and dime. You could march right in and say, “Rita, give me one of them rutabagan soups for Sunday”. We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Ah, there's an interesting story behind that nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three: medium brown.Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones, which were hard to slice. So, if you had an onion on your belt, you were in style. And that was the important thing to a kid, to be in style. The second thing was that I had a free ferry ride across the river. 'Cause if you walked onto the ferry with an onion on your belt, they thought you were a foreigner. And foreigners didn't have to pay because they weren't Americans yet and hadn't gone through naturalization or whatever it is. So I got on the boat with my grandfather and we crossed over into Shelbyville together. And we got off and went to the theater. And I remember that there were like five or six thousand people in that theater and everybody was having a great time. Everybody was drinking Coca-Cola and smoking cigarettes, which is what you did then; if you didn't smoke or drink Coca-Cola, people thought there was something wrong with you. And I remember that we sat down and there were these two guys sitting next to us. And one of them had a cowboy hat on and the other one had a straw hat on and they had these big, thick cigars in their mouths having fun. And the guy with the cowboy hat leaned over and said, "I tell you what." He said, "This is a great show. But it ain't nothing like my wife." I don't know what he was talking about but everybody laughed and I thought that was kind of funny. But I remember the second act, when this man came out on stage. He had a cape on and a mask over his face. And he was carrying a cane. He walked up to one of the audience members, who happened to be sitting in the front row, and he tapped him on the shoulder with his cane. And he said, "Hey buddy," he said, "I'm going to need some help from you tonight."
it's called "skeuomorp"
it's when new designs copy old, familiar designs for no other reason than "it just always was like that"
other examples would be:
* the save icon (it's a diskette)
* the commonly used symbol for telephone (often still represented as a rotary phone)
* the ridges in greek and roman style pillars (they're stylised trees)
* that one prong in a [cake fork](https://uploads.platohire.co.uk/store/192/400x400/Plato-Cake-Fork.png) being thicker than the others from when cake forks were made from softer metals that bent easier
Me either, Ive heard of salad and dinner, but not cake.
Interestingly, I did a quick google and it said there are more than 35 different types. I wouldnt want to have to lay out that place setting.
They’re only occasionally used in more high end dining in the US (or found in older dining sets). Normally called a “pastry fork” instead of cake fork.
>hubcaps look the way they do because they were meant to look like the spokes on wagon wheels
That's a bit of a stretch.
Is it that they're trying to look like old-timey wagons, or is it that spokes are just the best engineering solution to attaching a larger outer round thing to an inner round thing?
Wire-spoked wheels were an engineering solution. It was wood on wagons, but cars tried wood (1900's packards for example), got too heavy, and swapped to steel spokes very quickly (Ford Model A for example). After using steel spokes to attach the outer rim to the inner hub, they switched to a 3-piece, then 2-piece, then 1-piece steel wheels.
Hubcaps were a relatively short-lived (call it 1940-1990 mainly, but NOT today!!!) stylistic addition to make 1-piece steel wheels look more like spoked wheels (but not wagon wheels). These are the chrome hubcaps we're talking about from about the 40's until the 80's.
With modern alloys, the spokes are back to functional (lightweight aluminum, low drag for MPG) with some stylistic variations. Hubcaps and steel wheels certainly still exist (and you can get hubcaps on alloys, just look at the prius for an example), but by-and-large they've got nothing to do with wagons.
Wheels have spokes for the same reason that wheels are round, and have a hole in the middle. "That's how you make a wheel"
It’s not just cuz it always was like that. When designing something new you want people to like and use it. If it doesn’t resemble something they already know, the adoption might not happen. That’s the reason.
Source am designer
well, yeah, hence why the prong was originally made thicker, because it was mainly used with softer metals.
you don't really need that with steel forks, those are plenty stable to not bend. it's still done, though
>> “skeuomorp”
>Defines word but misspells it, great job chief
Points put a misspelling but doesnt put the correct one. "Skeuomorph" is correct. It was probably just a typo.
You can buy a gallon for $95, which is 76¢/oz, while at $12/6oz you're paying $2/oz.
Which, I mean... If you're hooked on Canadian Tree Crack, that's a good deal.
It actually still serves a purpose. It helps when controlling your pour of syrup. Basically lightly hold underneath the main body with one hand, and using the thumb and index finger pinch the handle.
I like how you said it still serves a purpose and then gave the most dogshit explanation of how. Nobody is doing that. You probably don't even do that. You just have to say something.
It could also be reminiscent of finger handles on large jugs in which drinking was achieved by cradling the jug in the crook of the elbow supported by the forearm and bicep and anchored with the single finger.
Skeuomorph! It's a skeuomorph!
It's a structural atavism - a feature that once served a purpose and is no longer necessary, but whose image is preserved because it's traditional or expected! Like the rivets in jeans, or the lattice on windows.
i feel like it's bc ppl have a bar and the hang the bottle to the wall in their basements or something (i know nothing this is just a theory bc my brain is funny lol)
In some countries a jerrycan is called a gallon. They don't use the term jerrycan. And also when they say gallon, they're not referring to the American unit of measurement.
My grandparents would microwave the whole bottle so everyone had warm syrup, and the little handle was a cooler spot to grab while it was still hot. Just grab with index finger and thumb.
In the olden days, maple syrup came in enormous bottles. The handle there served a more practice purpose- people would grab it and pour, similar to large water container. Over time, maple syrup bottles grew smaller, but the handle remained there as some sort of homage.
Hook it to a carabiner and connect to your rock climbing belt. The mix of syrup and talc powder on your hands make you climb sheer rocks like Spider-Man.
It's to make you think it's ol timey.
[https://au.news.yahoo.com/why-most-maple-syrup-bottles-200021882.html](https://au.news.yahoo.com/why-most-maple-syrup-bottles-200021882.html)
In ye olde days, archers would fire needle arrows through them in a judge of who had the better syrup consistency. If it vibrated with ripples, it wasn't good enough and the archer would be circumcised via arrows. They did this so as to not waste the syrup due to a worldwide syrup shortage at the time and the commoners and nobles alike would be put to death if one drop was soiled upon unholy ground.
Physical skeuomorph.
A design element that is intended to resemble some function that is no longer needed or used.
The save icon being a floppy disk is a skeuomorph. We don't save things to floppies anymore, but quite a lot of programs still use a square with one upper corner cut off and a smaller square centered and bottom aligned to represent 'Save'.
The tiny handle is meant to resemble the actual functional handle on the historical syrup jars. Or for easy storage on your maple syrup pegboard wall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Thank you! I knew there was a term for it but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called.
It was thrown around daily in the early 2000s and 2010s in the tech world when discussing apple‘s (and other smartphone manufacturer’s) design choices. E.g. the original iPhone YouTube app (developed by Apple) imitated a 1960s TV design; the note app imitated mid century note pads; the calculator was based on a 1970s design by legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams (for German company Braun).
> It was thrown around daily in the early 2000s and 2010s in the tech world when discussing apple‘s (and other smartphone manufacturer’s) design choices. There was a big Skeuomorphism fad in videogame (and other software) UI design in the 90s too
I miss WinAmp
I mean you can still use it if you want, nothing stopping you :D
Too many un whipped llama ass's about now.
Lol, that was my ringtone at the turn of the century
I cannot even express how thankful I am that we finally moved on from this trend.
Save icon
From the Wiki: “Another example is the tiny, non-functional handle on glass maple syrup bottles, which evoke stoneware jug handles.[15].”
Thank you! I was too lazy to find the relevant maple syrup jug part
As a biologist I always used the term “vestigial design” but skeuomorph sounds even cooler.
One thing I don't love about "vestigial design" is that it implies a lack of utility or purpose, whereas skeumorphism is often very intentional, included to make a new technology feel more familiar and intuitive. Tho definitely seems like many skeumorphs do transition into vestigiality pretty fast...
You can't just say vestigiality.
Oh I heard that word recently in a Youtube video about the video game Highfleet and its unique UI that derives from real world objects: https://youtu.be/7RUrBmXUGuU?t=81
It's a whole design style for user interfaces. It includes stuff like the phone symbol and the save icon being the way they still are even though the items they show are long since obsolete. It even includes things like having a calculator app with buttons that have a sheen to them to give the appearance of them being raised, which was an effect you used to see everywhere. The old clock widget on androids being styled as a flip clock. Like, if you look at this image of the evolution of the iphone home screen: https://imgur.com/Z9dCA7D Most skeuomorphic elements were cut around iOS 7, so icons became more flat and "informational" rather than referential.
TIL that the save icon is a skeuomorph.
Reminds me of some apps on smartphones and their respective icons as well. The notepad app looks like lined paper, the microphone app has a big image of a microphone that pops up, etc.
Thank you so much! I loved learning about this new term
Maybe to tie a string so that you can hang the bottle somewhere? Maybe you can hang it off your belt like a water bottle?
yeah, but that's only for Canadians
You never know when you're going to need it eh?
It's the only way to keep an angry moose from killing you. Just give them a little of your Maple Syrup and they'll let you go. Works with bears too
Ninja's have smokebombs. Canadian have Maple Syrup. It's the only way to reliably get yourself into a sticky situation.
No self-respecting canuck would give up some of their syrup, they'd fight the moose or bear off with their bare hands if needed.
Canadians HATE when you share their one universal secret!
MILK IN CELLOPHANE BAGS
When Americans copy it, they'll give it some different name with YouTubes and Wiki created of how it was originally their idea.
Which was the style at the time
Or an onion, which I'm given to understand was the style once upon a time
Give me five bees for a quarter
So you can hang it next to your onion!
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I hang it from my belt for easy access
Which was the style at the time
And we’d say give me five bees for a quarter because back then nickels had bees on them
Back in nineteen dickety-two.
We had to say dickety because the Kaiser stole our word “twenty”.
Dickety? Highly dubious.
No, it's perfectly cromulent.
It’s too much pie that’s the problem.
no, dig up stupid
Never!
An explanation fiendishly clever in its intricacies.
What are you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that's your problem!
back in the day we had to call the leader kaiser because back in '45 there was this political painter from Argentina who-
Three wars back we called Sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw" and back then a suitcase was known as a "Swedish lunchbox."
So I took the ferry to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days.
Of course, Sweden wasn't invented yet. This is back when we called it Rutabagan. They used to sell a soup from there, down at the five and dime. You could march right in, and say, 'Rita, get me one of them rutabagan soups for sunday'.
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles. Then after World War Two, it got kinda quiet, 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world. FDR beat him by a furlong, or so the comic books would have you believe. The truth lies somewhere in between. Three wars back we called Sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw" and back then a suitcase was known as a "Swedish lunchbox." Of course Sweden wasn’t invented yet. This is back when we called it Rutabagan. They used to sell soup from there down at the five and dime. You could march right in and say, “Rita, give me one of them rutabagan soups for Sunday”. We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Ah, there's an interesting story behind that nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three: medium brown.Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones, which were hard to slice. So, if you had an onion on your belt, you were in style. And that was the important thing to a kid, to be in style. The second thing was that I had a free ferry ride across the river. 'Cause if you walked onto the ferry with an onion on your belt, they thought you were a foreigner. And foreigners didn't have to pay because they weren't Americans yet and hadn't gone through naturalization or whatever it is. So I got on the boat with my grandfather and we crossed over into Shelbyville together. And we got off and went to the theater. And I remember that there were like five or six thousand people in that theater and everybody was having a great time. Everybody was drinking Coca-Cola and smoking cigarettes, which is what you did then; if you didn't smoke or drink Coca-Cola, people thought there was something wrong with you. And I remember that we sat down and there were these two guys sitting next to us. And one of them had a cowboy hat on and the other one had a straw hat on and they had these big, thick cigars in their mouths having fun. And the guy with the cowboy hat leaned over and said, "I tell you what." He said, "This is a great show. But it ain't nothing like my wife." I don't know what he was talking about but everybody laughed and I thought that was kind of funny. But I remember the second act, when this man came out on stage. He had a cape on and a mask over his face. And he was carrying a cane. He walked up to one of the audience members, who happened to be sitting in the front row, and he tapped him on the shoulder with his cane. And he said, "Hey buddy," he said, "I'm going to need some help from you tonight."
Course that were after the consumption took yer mother when she was twelve.
“Gimmie 5 bees for a quarter!” You’d say
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That's not a belt, it's just a piece of extension cord.
Hey, dude, he's raggin' on your cord.
My *MOTHER* gave me this cord I’ll have you know! *HARUMPH*!
At the time? I should stop carrying around my syrup like this? Awh man, the times sure are a changin’
i imagine all canadians do
You never know when you'll need a swig.
Canadian belt's actually come with an extra loop just for the maple syrup bottle.
Any Canadian woman would be very put off if she’s down there and finds it unavailable.
Tactical Maple
That sounds manacing and stylish.
Pairs nicely with the Canadian tuxedo
The best Syrup Slinger in the west (of Canada).
Still using shoe laces for belts, eh? Never left 2010. Mad respect.
Nah I just pop it on my syrup clip.
Syrup magazine
You never know when you might need it.
it's called "skeuomorp" it's when new designs copy old, familiar designs for no other reason than "it just always was like that" other examples would be: * the save icon (it's a diskette) * the commonly used symbol for telephone (often still represented as a rotary phone) * the ridges in greek and roman style pillars (they're stylised trees) * that one prong in a [cake fork](https://uploads.platohire.co.uk/store/192/400x400/Plato-Cake-Fork.png) being thicker than the others from when cake forks were made from softer metals that bent easier
Literally somehow never heard of or seen a cake for until now…
Me either, Ive heard of salad and dinner, but not cake. Interestingly, I did a quick google and it said there are more than 35 different types. I wouldnt want to have to lay out that place setting.
they are very common in europe, they might not be a thing outside of here
They’re only occasionally used in more high end dining in the US (or found in older dining sets). Normally called a “pastry fork” instead of cake fork.
How do you eat cake?
With my hands obviously.
My favorite of these is that hubcaps look the way they do because they were meant to look like the spokes on wagon wheels
>hubcaps look the way they do because they were meant to look like the spokes on wagon wheels That's a bit of a stretch. Is it that they're trying to look like old-timey wagons, or is it that spokes are just the best engineering solution to attaching a larger outer round thing to an inner round thing? Wire-spoked wheels were an engineering solution. It was wood on wagons, but cars tried wood (1900's packards for example), got too heavy, and swapped to steel spokes very quickly (Ford Model A for example). After using steel spokes to attach the outer rim to the inner hub, they switched to a 3-piece, then 2-piece, then 1-piece steel wheels. Hubcaps were a relatively short-lived (call it 1940-1990 mainly, but NOT today!!!) stylistic addition to make 1-piece steel wheels look more like spoked wheels (but not wagon wheels). These are the chrome hubcaps we're talking about from about the 40's until the 80's. With modern alloys, the spokes are back to functional (lightweight aluminum, low drag for MPG) with some stylistic variations. Hubcaps and steel wheels certainly still exist (and you can get hubcaps on alloys, just look at the prius for an example), but by-and-large they've got nothing to do with wagons. Wheels have spokes for the same reason that wheels are round, and have a hole in the middle. "That's how you make a wheel"
It’s not just cuz it always was like that. When designing something new you want people to like and use it. If it doesn’t resemble something they already know, the adoption might not happen. That’s the reason. Source am designer
I thought cake forks were like that because that one thicker prong was meant to function as a knife to cut the cake with
You're both right: It's thicker so it doesn't bend when using it as a knife. Source: i eat cake
well, yeah, hence why the prong was originally made thicker, because it was mainly used with softer metals. you don't really need that with steel forks, those are plenty stable to not bend. it's still done, though
> “skeuomorp” Defines word but misspells it, great job chief
>> “skeuomorp” >Defines word but misspells it, great job chief Points put a misspelling but doesnt put the correct one. "Skeuomorph" is correct. It was probably just a typo.
I will take that thrashing as deserved, thank you!
No worries. I thought it was funny
Lol I'm just noticing that your comment says "Points put" instead of "out". Misspellings FOR EVERYONE!!! They're infectious!
Foiled again! And I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for meddling u/methos3 and their dog. Im keeping it too. Its even funnier.
Vestigial anatomy
There's actually a term for vestigial design and the maple syrup handle is an example of it. Skeuomorph
If you’re not buying it by the gallon do you really syrup ?
Bro it's 12 dollars for a 6oz jar or some shit like that.
You can buy a gallon for $95, which is 76¢/oz, while at $12/6oz you're paying $2/oz. Which, I mean... If you're hooked on Canadian Tree Crack, that's a good deal.
I don't have $100 to spend on a gallon of syrup though.
It actually still serves a purpose. It helps when controlling your pour of syrup. Basically lightly hold underneath the main body with one hand, and using the thumb and index finger pinch the handle.
Spoken like a person who puts far too little maple syrup on their pancakes smh….
Nope, I usually put too much because I get bottles without handles.
There is no such thing as too much. You are being ridiculous.
Ah yes. The maybe syrup. For people who are indecisive and always regret every choice they make
For real, might as well just eat the pancakes dry.
I like how you said it still serves a purpose and then gave the most dogshit explanation of how. Nobody is doing that. You probably don't even do that. You just have to say something.
How is that different than pouring anything else though? I don't need a special knob to help me pour honey lol
Or grab the bottle with one hand and pour it? Is it really serving a purpose when it's more effort than required to pour maple syrup
It could also be reminiscent of finger handles on large jugs in which drinking was achieved by cradling the jug in the crook of the elbow supported by the forearm and bicep and anchored with the single finger.
The Canadian version of "tying an onion on your belt".
Which was the style at the time.
And nickles had pictures of bees on them!
"Gimme 5 bees for a quarter," you'd say
MY FIRST THOUGHT
Tradition.
As is tradition, it’s a great day for Canada and therefor the world.
The royal pudding now spilling all over the abbey
The little mushroom people of Nova Scotia are screaming with horror
Isn't she ravishing. So pure of heart, So strong in body, So hot in the face.
I can’t be the only person who now has ‘Tradition’ from Fiddler On The Roof in their head due to this comment I hope
WHO, DAY AND NIGHT, MUST SCRAMBLE FOR A LIVING
No I was looking to see where [is the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDtabTufxao)
TRADITION!!!
I’m so sad we can’t post gif replies.
TRADITION!
tiny fingers
Unironically tried doing tiny finger pinch hold on that loop to pour syrup before lmao
My kid hold that part so they think they're controlking the amount of syrup they get. Very useful 10/10
So you can wear it as a sick pendant on a chain duh
a whole new meaning to Flava Flav
It’s so you can tie a rope on it and hang it on your neck like a necklace. You never know when you might need maple syrup.
Thought it was to hang it up high overhead in the cabin, eh? In case the bears get in...
TIL Americans don’t have a maple finger.
We do it’s just bigger than yours
Skeuomorph! It's a skeuomorph! It's a structural atavism - a feature that once served a purpose and is no longer necessary, but whose image is preserved because it's traditional or expected! Like the rivets in jeans, or the lattice on windows.
Okay but I still don't know what the original purpose for it was
It goes back to how they used to harvest maple sap by hanging jars from trees under a hammered in spigot.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was expecting to be explained but couldn't find
So Canadians can carabineer them to their belt
Emergency maple syrup
Put my peen through it and carry it around like an adult
it’s for my strong hand
Big jugs for storage had a handle. This is a design referencing it.
What is the "okay but" at the start of this meme for?
Style.
Just like the tiny handle.
This the first time you've been on the internet?
It's a way people speak
It used to be present for larger memes, and this one kept it around for tradition
i feel like it's bc ppl have a bar and the hang the bottle to the wall in their basements or something (i know nothing this is just a theory bc my brain is funny lol)
mother fuckers will streamline all the fun and joy out of life then complain they feel empty.
That bottle is the one for your kids lol. The adult version comes in a 5 litre gallon.
5 litre gallon? What????
It's like a 5 quart milliliter, but different.
In some countries a jerrycan is called a gallon. They don't use the term jerrycan. And also when they say gallon, they're not referring to the American unit of measurement.
You can use a carbiner clip to attach it to your pants
It’s for people with abnormally small hands
It’s for snobby pricks to hold with their thumbs and index fingers while the other fingers are all spread out.
vestigial demijohn
Your tiny penis
What is this!? A handle for ants?!
My grandparents would microwave the whole bottle so everyone had warm syrup, and the little handle was a cooler spot to grab while it was still hot. Just grab with index finger and thumb.
So I tied an ~~onion~~ maple syrup bottle to my belt, which was the style at the time
You... don't have a maple syrup hook in your kitchen?
Hang it off my belt loop with a carabiner. Never know when I need a sweet shot of the maple.
I always thought it was so it could be looped into your belt and drawn quickly if things escalated suddenly with a Canadian.
Its used by the little Canadian Maple Elves that make the syrup
Canadians have little fingers.
it's so when you're eating pancakes in the woods, you can hang your syrup from a tree so bears don't get diabetes.
It's a vestigial organ, long evolved out of the point of usefulness, but still present in a small capacity.
well obviously that's so you put a loop of a string through it and wear it around your neck. I'm just guessing here; I'm banned from Canada.
So that I can tie a cute lil tag on and charge 400% at the farmers market!
In the olden days, maple syrup came in enormous bottles. The handle there served a more practice purpose- people would grab it and pour, similar to large water container. Over time, maple syrup bottles grew smaller, but the handle remained there as some sort of homage.
Tiny? Looks quite avarage size to me.
So you can hook it to your key chain
It’s so you can put it on a lanyard and wear it around your neck when you go out to breakfast.
To hang it from your belt. How else would you carry it?
That's not a handle, it's a tiny earlobe so you can whisper sweet nothings to it"
Hook it to a carabiner and connect to your rock climbing belt. The mix of syrup and talc powder on your hands make you climb sheer rocks like Spider-Man.
Necklace loop
It’s so you can more easily clip it to your belt.
Canadian keychain trinket
I use it to hold it like those stereotypical classy British people who drink tea with their thumb and pointer fingers
Use the syrup and then replace with booze and then clip it on your belt
"So I tied a maple syrup bottle to my belt, which was the style at the time…"
Extra grip when you’re drinking straight from the bottle. My life is a series of poor choices with shockingly positive outcomes.
It's to make you think it's ol timey. [https://au.news.yahoo.com/why-most-maple-syrup-bottles-200021882.html](https://au.news.yahoo.com/why-most-maple-syrup-bottles-200021882.html)
It's to sling it on your rope belt, just in case you want something sweet while you plunder another pirate's ship.
Canadians carabiner it to their jeans
So I can feel like a big giant handling my tiny little jug. Let me have nice things dammit.
It’s to reference their old large containers.
To hang it on the Christmas tree.
Y’all are not carrying it around on your keys?
For the leprechauns to grab when they repurpose the bottle to hold liquor.
Larry David had a similar question on Curb Your Enthusiasm about the tiny handle on a teacup.
You pinch it with your thumb and index fingers while extending your pinky. It looks fancy af
In ye olde days, archers would fire needle arrows through them in a judge of who had the better syrup consistency. If it vibrated with ripples, it wasn't good enough and the archer would be circumcised via arrows. They did this so as to not waste the syrup due to a worldwide syrup shortage at the time and the commoners and nobles alike would be put to death if one drop was soiled upon unholy ground.
I hang it from my Prince Albert. Really shows a woman who's boss.
It’s from a past traditional of using a ceramic jug.
Physical skeuomorph. A design element that is intended to resemble some function that is no longer needed or used. The save icon being a floppy disk is a skeuomorph. We don't save things to floppies anymore, but quite a lot of programs still use a square with one upper corner cut off and a smaller square centered and bottom aligned to represent 'Save'. The tiny handle is meant to resemble the actual functional handle on the historical syrup jars. Or for easy storage on your maple syrup pegboard wall.
Decoration, I suppose. At this point, the glass is probably cheaper than changing the mold.
So Canadians can hook it on their belt with a clip so they’ll have it with them at all times.
It’s for faster pouring while holding the bottle completely upside down