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?!?

Also, counter corned beef is far superior, unless you're making hash. The slices are bread-sized and it's impossible to get it as thin and smooth at home. And it prevents me eating it straight out of the tin with a spoon I just fold the slices into my mouth instead.

The lion's just having a nap, Cornetto. Really.

Urgh I can't abide corned beef. Urgh.
I did quite like the Fray Bentos pies-inna-tin though.

Was he trying to put people off honey so they'd buy golden syrup instead?

When she said 'dead lion', she meant 'playing dead lions' Cornetto. He's teaching the bees how to play.

My mum once cooked a fray bentos pie with the lid still on when she first married...she didn't realise you had to remove the lid, thankfully a neighbour popped in and asked what the smell was, the tin had puffed up and was ready to blow!!

Corned beef tastes better out a tin but why is it so expensive now?

How on earth did the OPs kitchen not turn into a sticky mess when her DH opened the syrup with the tin opener, the stuff gets everywhere!

I thought the increased price of corned beef was to do with the cattle shortage in south America?

In our house, golden syrup was always known as "dead lion".

In our house, golden syrup is known as "the golden ketchup"

This is the sort of thing my dad would do. My mum always calls him a "thug" because he uses brute force to open cartons/packets and ruins them so that 1. everything goes everywhere and 2. they can't be resealed.

This is so very amusing.

OP you need to tell me what tin opener you have!! I struggle with tin opener (being a hand weakling) evidently you have a king of tin openers.

The only thing I can't seem to open is rice, it always seems to spill somewhere. That reminds me about a conversation I had about rice a few days ago. Please tell me you all wash your rice before cooking it?

It's just a bog standard one similar to this judy I've had it years

I cba to wash rice. Haven't killed anyone yet.

I've never washed rice in my life.

But there's so much crap on it Rat
Saying that I don't mind eating from the dodgy Chinese who probably sells rat tikka and pigeon korma.

Yes, I always wash my rice. I taught H how to cook dried spaghetti and he taught me how to cook rice. The secret to opening the bag is to hold it upright and give it a good shake down (unroll the top of the bag if it's rolled). Then cut horizontally just under the top seal, but only far enough so that you can untuck the side of the bag that's folded in and use that bit as a pouring spout. Reseal with a clip thingy and store upright.

Washing is only partially about cleaning the rice, it also removes excess starch.

I always wash rice. And I'm now off to make pancakes to have with golden syrup and strawberries

Saying that I don't mind eating from the dodgy Chinese who probably sells rat tikka and pigeon korma.

V.dodgy indeed - your Chinese is selling Indian dishes!

Meh. It's going in boiling water.

slightly randomly off the topic but as a teen I was given a jean Paul Gaultier perfume in a tin.. it was a new thing back in those olden days. I opened it with a tin opener too. I was mortified when I was a friends house and she just pulled it apart. I have never publicly admitted this ever!

acasualobserver 😂 PAHAHA, you know what I meant

Looks and tastes the same whether I wash it or not. I'm still alive.

Rat I'm really funny about certain things, and really meh about others.
I have to do my washing a certain way, the clothes have to all be the right way round, if I pull out an inside out sock I have to wash it again the right way round
But I can go without polishing for weeks