They were also called slop Jars. We had one!!!!!!!!!!!! I am telling you all something, these younger people just don't know what they are missing. Sometimes I tell my grandchildren how things were when I was growing up and they can't believe it. We wore hand-me-down clothes (now they go to the thrift stores) which was traumatic to me. During the war, so many things were rationed. Two pair of shoes a year and when they had holes in the sole, we took them to the shoe shop to be "half-soled". Sugar, coffee, meat as well as other things were rationed and you had ration books you took to the stores to get these items. I don't know that the old days were the "good old days" but it sure makes you thankful for what we have today. Another thing that some people had in "the good old days" was a water bucket and dipper. Everyone who came to visit and wanted a drink, used the same dipper. It is a wonder that we survived!!!!!!!! Mary June