to not need every food to come with instructions/suggestions.

[Funtimewincies]

OK, I'm not in the best of moods at the moment, but I'm oddly annoyed by the bag of lemons in my kichen, the label of which cheerfully informs me that they are 'ideal for zesting and drinks'.

That's good, as I was planning on seeing how many I could fit up my arse before taking myself off to A&E to show them how clever I am .

Similarly, a packet of raisins tells me that they are 'ideal for home baking or adding to breakfast cereals or yoghurt. I glad that they've cleared this one up as I've been wondering why my raisins havn't been getting my washing as clean as my usual stuff.

AIBU to be irritated by the presumption that I, as a consumer, must be utterly cluless?

i have a Cooling Head Stick from Boots for headaches. But it's for external use only remember.

I bought a cup of tea while waiting in the freezing cold on Cambridge station just before Xmas. The kindly man in the tea stand asked if he should put some cold water in it as it might be hot. We are all toddlers these days, evidently.

I live in India and all food seems to come with a red dot or a green dot. Green for vegetarian and red for non vegetarian.
I can understand for processed food but who has doubts about peas or chicken?

YANBU to not need it, but YABU to object to it.

Can't get link on phone but search for Happy Fun Ball on YouTube for a good product warning spoof.

I forgot to mention about the waiter in TGI Friday who was very concerned that I may not know that my margarita was a cocktail.

The close up rectangular photo of nothing but peas on my tin of peas says 'serving suggestion'. Are they suggesting I look at them through a letterbox?

One of our butchers in town has a big sign on the door saying
"Why Not Try!
HOT BUTTERED TOAST
With JAM or MARMALADE"
It's the next big thing, I'm sure of it :)

I get irrationally irritated by cooking instructions that end by telling you to "Enjoy!"

"Enjoy" is not a cooking instruction. (It isn't a sentence either, but that's being a bit picky even by my standards.)

Sounds like the Toast Marketing Board to me peerie.

ps A DS to whom I was reading this thread asks why a butcher is offering you hot buttered toast.

Hey, I need all the instructions I can get [terrible cook]. And I like it when they are friendly. I could really do with them to also say "it's ok, breathe, breathe, it's only cooking, go and get a pan - that's the thing that looks like a bowl with a stick on the side - and now, hey, stop hyperventilating and have s slug of wine". That would be great.

It's a butcher/baker, they do sausage rolls/cream cakes/pastries as well as chops and I suppose toast is in their remit too :)

Rhubarb, but surely even a self-confessed terrible cooks has a vague idea what to do with a lemon, even if it's just to brighten up a G&T?

Lemon... Er....

I love the superman one here

Ewww that cheese Bitter. For best results don't remove the cap, or eat it.

Thanks Peeriebear, sounds like my sort of shop! (Except for the annoying sign of course.)

Yes Zukiecat! I bought some Nytol type tablets and they said "May cause drowsiness, do not operate heavy machinery"

I also remember when I had eye drops for my old cat and the leaflet said "Do not use in conjunction with contact lenses"
Good job my mog wore glasses then eh.

I get the Rage every time I look at my bottle of nail varnish remover that says proudly "Specially formulated to remove nail varnish". WHY DOES IT NEED TO SAY THAT? Surely the 'nail varnish remover' label told me that already? It's so pointless, it winds me up no end.

I like the serving suggestion pictures. The contents of the packet on a plate is my favourite.

With a sprig of parsley, of course.

IIRC Danny Baker used to do a segment on serving suggestions on his TV show (shows age). It was all photos of stuff lumped on plates, ocassionally with a bit of parsley or cress.
It was really funny (maybe you had to be there...)

Or you could go more abstract. This says 'serving suggestion'. Deconstituting the ingredients is a bit extreme.