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?!?

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

Bees woman, they're bees! It's from the Bible. Samson kills a lion, and when he comes back later some bees have made a nest in the corpse and have made honey.

I can't imagine many brand experts giving that logo the go ahead these days, I have to admit .

Oh, and btw OP, you need a new DH.

Ah, cross-posted!

Seriously? Has the man never seen a tin of paint before, to not be able to recognise a flip-off lid?

Honestly.

Sort of thing my DH would probably do too, if he ever went near the golden syrup.

I'm laughing at the 'like a werewolf' comment.

How does a werewolf open things?

KP86 opposable thumbs, KP. Fact.

This has made my morning!

I'm just aghast at sanitys PIL opening wipes at the end. HOW annoying would that be?

I always thought it was a dead lion surrounded by flies too.

This thread is both amusing and informative.

I like the idea if setting him a series of secret trials.
Corned Beef
Sardines
Fray Bentos pies (will he remove the whole raw pie to cook it?)

Also LOL-ing at opening ham 'like a werewolf '

YANBU

Found a tin in my parents garage from 1970s last year - labels till the same, Tin still the same.

Is he an alien?

Loving all the assumptions that he must have seen a can of paint before. Maybe he hasn't, hence the confusion?

My DH was stopped in his tracks by a can of corned beef, having never opened one before in 38 years of living on this planet. I don't know if that makes him naive or just classier than me...

I open corned beef with a tin opener, it's just easier. I absolutely love corned beef.

The first time that H cooked dried spaghetti he broke it into pieces because otherwise 'it would have been too long to fit in the saucepan'. He does originate from Asia so didn't have experience with spaghetti, but on the other hand he had plenty of experience of cooking with dried noodles which are more or less the same as spaghetti.

Loving this thread, sadly I have nothing DP related to add. Will be keeping an eye out for werewolf like packet opening though...

You're husband may be a fool, but that's one hell of a tin opener you've got there.

*Your !

Loving all the assumptions that he must have seen a can of paint before. Maybe he hasn't, hence the confusion

What's wrong with assuming he's seen a tin of paint? Its hardly an unusual thing.

I've got 'like a werewolf' playing in my head now, to the tune of like a virgin.

I love this thread. I've just horrified my partner with the Lyles lion thing. I can't believe people didn't know about that! He's a theology graduate, too.

If you've got an old syrup bottle you can rinse it out and decant the syrup into it.

I open corned beef both ends with a can opener so I can shove it out.

This reminds me of someone years ago being snooty saying they only bought 'fresh' corned beef of the deli counter rather than the tinned stuff

I love a golden syrup tin (and a treacle tin) though, I have them on my desk with my pens and pencils in and various others dotted around the house storing button and beads and the like.

They are cool and retro and free with the syrup

Now I'm sad about the lion pancakes won't be the same again with dead Simba on staring at me.

I haven't bought golden syrup in a horrible sticky rusting dentable tin for years. Partly because I'm diabetic.