wrote:
> Here's a picture from Froogle in compressed url form:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/br8xv
>
> I'm not sure what to call them. They're small glass dishes with
> wonderful glass lids and they have tabs to hold onto. Anyone else here
> love these things, too?
>
> They are hard to find these days, and you have to live with the dated
> patterns on them (which is no problem), but it seems like Pyrex could
> make a haul on these. They're perfect for leftovers! All you can find
> nowadays are glass dishes with some awful plastic lids that warp, or
> discolor, or stain, or melt, or don't fit right, etc. And the new ones
> aren't good sizes for leftovers or don't have much for tabs to grab
> onto when hot.
>
> Should I lobby Pyrex to bring them back, or is there another company
> that makes these things?
>

I think that they got rid of the square and rectangular ones too! I
find ovals to be difficult to serve from (looks messy, etc.) and I
really prefer the square and rectangular ones but I've had no luck
replacing the one that DH broke :-/

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jmk in NC