Dp opened the golden syrup WITH A TIN OPENER

[Timri]

We normally get the squeeze bottle variety, but when I last got some they only had tins.
And he opened it with a tin opener!?!? I have just found the evidence in the cupboard with tin foil over the top.
AIBU to have assumed that everyone knows how to open golden syrup tin?!?

Love it! Only a man............!

Decant it into a jar/Tupperware - disaster looms large otherwise

Everything within a three foot radius will now be sticky. Make him clean it. This is up there with unforgivable sins like putting empty milk back in the fridge or leaving an empty toilet inner on the loo roll holder. Oooh, I'd be cross!

I don't totally blame him, as I opened a tin of Heinz baked beans upside down with a tin opener the other day, and it had one of those pull across things, except because the tin was upside down I didn't see it.

Have you got a spare jam jar? Boil water and sterilise jar, then put syrup in and pop lid on.

Brilliant! this has made my day ;)

The animal!! Hilarious

Surely it's bloody obvious that it has a lid? Well, clearly it isn't since your DH didn't see it but but...

As someone else's said, it's exactly like a paint can.

He must have opened it upside down? Surely?

This has really made me laugh, especially the image of him muttering to himself about the stupid tin design, whilst grumpily eating his porridge.

Hahaha that's amazing!

Ok, so I could lie and say 'yes, of course he opened it upside down, if it had been the right way up he would have seen the lid' and you can all join me in pretending he isn't actually just an idiot...

That is hilarious

Have you seen the Lyle's syrup logo? It's a dead lion surrounded by flies. True story.

Surely this is not

This has made my morning
I would of thought everybody knows how to open it

Oops wrong thread.

Gosh this has really made me laugh :o

I can't quite comprehend how he could get a tin opener around the top . I think we need to see a picture.

The only place for him is under the patio. No jury would convict you

Although I'm surprised my DCs didn't start a thread about me recently - in my Christmas food box my (lovely) parents put a tin of Italian plum tomatoes (that must have cost a bomb). I have arthritis and couldn't open the bastard thing either with the ring pull or the tin opener. My meatballs were in the slow cooker awaiting their expensive tomatoes and I'm afraid after wrestling with it for 10 mins I threw the tin on the floor in a temper and called it a fucking wanker. Of course it opened and they went all over the floor. I spent the afternoon trying to prevent the cat from eating it or rolling it in it, whilst waiting for my DCs to come home and help wipe it up I shall stick to my cheap Sainsburys cardboard cartons

WTF? How did I never notice that, Oysterbabe? I knew it was a lion, but not a dead one!
I did spot the lid, though...

Have you seen the Lyle's syrup logo? It's a dead lion surrounded by flies. True story.

They are bees, I think. Lyle was very religious and the design is a biblical reference.

Here you go Rat
The tin is bloody thick too!

Oh god, I'm another one who's never noticed the flies!! And the slogan!
'Out of the strong came forth sweetness' with a decaying lion!

Oysterbabe it's bees, not flies. "Out of the strong came forth sweetness is written in tiny writing under the pic.

'Tis biblical:

The tin bears a picture of the rotting carcass of a lion with a swarm of bees and the slogan "Out of the strong came forth sweetness". This is a reference to the Biblical story in chapter 14 of the Book of Judges in which Samson was travelling to the land of the Philistines in search of a wife. During the journey he killed a lion, and when he passed the same spot on his return he noticed that a swarm of bees had formed a comb of honey in the carcass. Samson later turned this into a riddle at a wedding: "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness". While it is not known exactly why this image and slogan were chosen, Abram Lyle was a deeply religious man, and it has been suggested that they refer either to the strength of the Lyle company or the tins in which golden syrup is sold

This is so funny

Mind you I could imagine dh doing similar.

I think to make amends you'd better get him baking to use it all up, otherwise you're going to have a very sticky cupboard.

The good news is that you'll have a good supply of flapjack.