You know, there are times when I'm just overly proud of my former fellow students. Should I be at all surprised that the guys of the Grease Jar collective are mostly members of UMDrumline? For the love:
Nearby the Jell-O box pyramids and just out of range of the flying whiffle golf balls that pass near the kitchen of senior Adam Boorstein's off-campus rental, sits a stinky, lonely, gallon-sized jar of grease.These are the people powering the future, y'all. Gotta love it. Go Terps.
For more than a year, that grease container, formerly a restaurant-sized pickle jar, sat near the stove, its owners slowly filling its belly with goopy cooking residue until it was oozing with the gelatinous, oily remains of a college diet. And all that time, its keepers were oblivious of the fact that they were sitting on an absolute gold mine. Imagine their ignorance.
But Boorstein and his four other roommates, being the tech-saavy college students they are, decided that instead of throwing the yellowish layers of bottled grease away, why not see if there was an Internet market for it? There was. Two weeks ago, the jar sold on eBay for a whopping $305. And the jar has even raked in almost $400 from a website where people sympathetic to poor college students can wire money.
About $700. For a jar of grease.
