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Original poster

To use my lemon kitchen spray on my pancakes

65 replies

ILoveBray · 05/03/2019 18:52

I honestly don't think it's as bad as it sounds!

My husband, our two children and I were having pancakes tonight, and I realised I had forgotten to get one of those squeezy lemons, or an actual lemon so that we could have traditional lemon and sugar ones.

Well no problem I thought, I have a spray bottle of lemon juice under the sink I use for cleaning and it's just filled with Jif lemon juice anyway. So I took it out and sprayed my pancake, and offered it to them (obviously telling them it was lemon juice and not bleach).

They all looked at me like I had offered them poison and had Nutella instead.

Was it that weird to do? It tasted fine Confused

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ALargeGinPlease · 05/03/2019 19:34

Grin loving this, i started off thinking it was fine, but i read it out to my dc and their reaction leads to me to think that perhaps it's not so ok.

grumiosmum · 05/03/2019 19:35

We're having Domestos on ours.

Followed by a trip to A&E.

Kittykat93 · 05/03/2019 19:35

Just got this image of op reaching into the cleaning cupboard hauling out a bottle of flash and spraying it on her pancakes after offering it to her family Grin

StealthPolarBear · 05/03/2019 19:36

"
JIF not CIF grin I still wouldn't, like a PP said, shouldn't be kept in the fridge?"
You see those of us who are old can easily get confused with this, I still call thw cleaning cream jif.

Babygrey7 · 05/03/2019 19:36

In the shop it is packed air tight

Also, why use lemon juice for cleaning?! Who does that? It contains a fair bit of sugar and would just make your house really sticky Grin

Right, am going to dye my hair with a bit of bleach now Wink, after I have done the washing up with shampoo.... no it does not work, cannot come up with anything equally bonkers GrinGrinGrin

StealthPolarBear · 05/03/2019 19:38

Have you not seen the cleaning threads on here, most recommend lemon juice to clean

Original poster
ILoveBray · 05/03/2019 19:38

Babygrey7 we live in a really hard water area and lemon juice seems to get rid of limescale really well.

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diddl · 05/03/2019 19:40

I like the idea of spray Jif lemon-they've missed a trick there!

NoParticularPattern · 05/03/2019 19:42

Well my jif lemons are certainly ever airtight (not a euphemism!). I can always see a gap between the liquid and the top of the lemon shaped bottle which there wouldn’t be if it were airtight surely?! Anyway I still would. It’s be no different to it kicking about open in the cupboard of doom for a month!

EmperorBallpitine · 05/03/2019 19:43

I suppose its not as bad as it looked from the title, because jif is edible, albeit in a plastic lemon . Still. You have very sensible children. Nutella instead of the stuff mum uses to clean with, you can see their point.

Bluetrews25 · 05/03/2019 19:45

I bet you could wash dishes with shampoo. They'd be squeaky clean after! People used to use soap, before Fairy and the like came along.
I used to have a lovely perfume as a teen - very lemony - think it was called Lemon Drench. Bet that would have been sublime.....or even sublemon. Grin Hmm

FurrySlipperBoots · 05/03/2019 19:47

Meh. Toilet Duck would have had more flavour. That's what Delia uses anyway...

Scatobrain · 05/03/2019 19:50

Lemon sole should do just as well.

ThunderStorms · 05/03/2019 19:52

You refrigerate after opening because the seal has been broken... it will have been packed in a protective atmosphere.

What was in the spray bottle BEFORE the lemon juice? And if just a plastic bottle, was it thoroughly washed to remove dust and chemicals? Thought not...

ThunderStorms · 05/03/2019 19:53

(Manufacturing chemicals, that is)

MajesticWhine · 05/03/2019 19:55

YABU for not having savoury pancakes.

yumyumpoppycat · 05/03/2019 19:58

I had some lemon juice in a bottle for cleaning (being sold as a food item) and it was all brown and gluggy when I used it recently - so does go off even if the top bit looked ok it still might be festerey further down.

Original poster
ILoveBray · 05/03/2019 19:59

ThunderStorms it's one of those empty plastic ones from B&M, I think people usually put water in them to spray plants. Its only ever had lemon juice in it. I have one for lemon juice and one for white vinegar.

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WhoWasIt · 05/03/2019 19:59

Did you give the pancakes a sprinkling of harpic too as a sugar substitute or will you be saving it to put on the cornflakes in the morning?

Then serve up frozen slices of toothpaste for after dinner mints?

3luckystars · 05/03/2019 20:01

You need to get on to Take a Break fast before someone on this thread claims your £25.

Top Tip.

icelollycraving · 05/03/2019 20:12

It’s like a helpful hints column in Take a break for thrifty —saddos— people.

icelollycraving · 05/03/2019 20:13

^^ ha!! I hadn’t read your post!

ScarletBitch · 05/03/2019 20:13

Hahaha 😂😂😂😂

MadAboutWands · 05/03/2019 20:15

Tbh I don’t think it would phase me out.
I would probably have done the same OP.

Biancadelrioisback · 05/03/2019 20:15

I think you're a genius!