To think Tesco are being completely unreasonable..

[BlueEyesWhiteDragon]

...... To deliver me 3 tins of corned beef all without the bloody keys to open them!!!

That is all.

YANBU

They however were more unreasonable to me this week...4 different meats all were going to go off on the same day within 3 days of shop arriving!!

Baked potato sliced in half. Scoop the middle out. Mash together with corned beef and sweetcorn then put back into the potato skins. Add grated cheese and grill until golden and bubbly. The keys are a twat to use though. I always end up with it jamming part way. I use the ever so ever so safe method of Opening it up until the key stops turning then grabbing hold of the strip with a tea towel and pulling it round to open it

Oh, interesting! I had a tin of prince's reduced fat corned beef a week or two ago that was also missing/showed no sign of ever having the little key. Bloody nightmare to get in to with a normal tin opener too!

@LieNoMore

Those tins should come with a hazard warning, I sliced 3 of my fingers open trying to open one of those bloody tins as a child. I can still remember the pain and the copious amount of blood …I still bear the scars!

It doesn’t come out of the tin without stabbing it with a fecking knife, it’s lethal. Wouldn’t let any of my dcs near one when they were younger….taught them to use tin opener on both ends then push it through!

Having said that still love corned beef!

You keep the tins in the fridge. Then the corned beef just slides out rather than clinging to the sides.

And then your DP steals it all for some manky pink slop made with perfectly good mashed potato when you were expecting to have enough left in the fridge for your packed lunch tomorrow with salad and pickle

@Piment

Parenting teenagers is absolute hell! Living with their selfishness, attitudes and squabbling is getting too much. Like someone else quite rightly pointed out, when you yourself are trying to deal with peri-menopause, plus a whole host of other things, teens can really push you over the edge. Doesn't help that my mum is also constantly undermining my husband and I & we get no emotional support whatsoever there...Sometimes I need to go to the top of a mountain and scream! Either that or invent a time machine...

Did they take the keys off your corned beef, too?

Little gits.

@HopingForMyRainbowBaby

Baked potato sliced in half. Scoop the middle out. Mash together with corned beef and sweetcorn then put back into the potato skins. Add grated cheese and grill until golden and bubbly. The keys are a twat to use though. I always end up with it jamming part way. I use the ever so ever so safe method of Opening it up until the key stops turning then grabbing hold of the strip with a tea towel and pulling it round to open it

I'm so going to do this Thanks.

Smells like cat food if I remember rightly.

@HopingForMyRainbowBaby

Baked potato sliced in half. Scoop the middle out. Mash together with corned beef and sweetcorn then put back into the potato skins. Add grated cheese and grill until golden and bubbly. The keys are a twat to use though. I always end up with it jamming part way. I use the ever so ever so safe method of Opening it up until the key stops turning then grabbing hold of the strip with a tea towel and pulling it round to open it

That sounds fucking delicious!

@JesusSufferingFuck22

You think that's bad? They delivered my vodka with the security tag still on it

I had this happen to me a few weeks ago too! I was fuming

Yabu because everyone should have at least one spare key in their cutlery drawer. Even if you never eat things requiring keys you should still have one

Assuming you actually get the tin open, when pulling the lid apart from the main bit, I use a pair of ovengloves to protect my fingers.
The metal keys are used to hook coins or stuck coins and tokens out of the trolley, not instead of them.

@BodgertheJogger

Smells like cat food if I remember rightly.

You're thinking of tins of stewed steak, there.

@BlueEyesWhiteDragon

...... To deliver me 3 tins of corned beef all without the bloody keys to open them!!!

That is all.

When my children were young we used to shop in Netto on a Friday evening for some cheaper branded goods and then did another shop in Safeway for the rest.

In Netto it was like a jumble sale and my children ran about and we had to keep watching them. One time they were very quiet and well behaved.

When we got back to our car they emptied their pockets out. They had nicked all the keys off the corned beef tins :)

When I have lunch with my mum she still insists on opening the can. I'm 32! There have been a few near misses though

For those of you with security tagged alcohol - a flat head screw driver and youtube is what you need.

ASDA used to do this to me all the time and now im an expert at getting through the tag!

@PolytheneRam

I do hope you've logged it with 101.

101?!! 999 all the way! It's clearly an emergency. Given all the stories of laceration injuries there is a severe risk to life both from opening the tin ...

@girlmom21

On toast? Do you slice it or mash it? Butter? Please explain.

2 slices bread in toaster. Just lightly toasted so the bread isnt too crisp. Dollops of butter. Add nice chunky slices of corned beef put the second slice of toast on top and voila ... food goodness.

The only debate in the house is whether its better when the corned beef has just come out of the tin in the cupboard so is soft (this one is correct) or whether you use it from the fridge so it's cold and hard (not this one). The debate is more severe than the "what constitutes one sandwich" debate but less than the "how you nake cheese on toast". DBs cheese on toast rants of 2017 are legendary and we try to avoid a repeat 😉

Hahaha I love this!

I must say though I think if I was going to eat corned beef it'd be on a sandwich with branston.

Or in corned beef hash with baked beans, but that goes without saying.

@KindlyKanga

Tin openers don't work easily on them that is why they have the key thingy I think?

Also it is expensive and comes from Argentina so I don't think it's good for the airmiles. But we did eat a fair bit in lock down 1 when no one wanted to go to the supermarket in case they died.

Corned beef doesn't have airmiles: that's the whole point of it.

And Princes isn't from Argentina any more, it's from Brazil, but that's much worse in ecological terms.

Ring pulls on tins boil my piss too. Great when they work but 75% of the time they come off in my hand.

On the subject of vodka, for those wanting to boycott Russian vodkas, there are so many great alternatives including Ukrainian vodkas.

re Tesco I had my order canceled Monday, 20 minutes before the 19:00 delivery slot, apparently their computer was down. Can't complain though, I've been getting deliveries since covid started and apart from a couple of odd subs (after requesting no subs) they've been excellent. reminder to self order a can of corned beef

Corned beef sandwich with salad cream 😋

I hope you didn't buy the Ship brand one that's newly appeared in our Tesco. I used some last night to make corned beef hash, I thought it had a weird texture as it started to melt down in the pan. I left it frying for a short while and when I went back every surface in the kitchen was covered in condensation as though I were boiling something! It's clearly full of water.

One of my favourite things to make is a corn beef and potato pie, it’s just pure tasty comfort food.

The tins are evil buggers though.