to wonder what is so "fiddly and annoying" about draining a tin of tuna?

[Fraochsmum]

I'm seeing the new advert for John West tuna rather too frequently, and I just can't see what the problem is with having to drain the tin.
Is it just me?

Never occurred to me that it was any trouble. Our cat is particularly fond of the drainings.

I have a fear that someone will eat tuna sandwiches near me and talk to me and bits fly out of their mouth. Or that I will smell the tuna coming from their mouths.
shudder
On the other hand peanut butter is lovely- not antisocial and doesn't need to buried in concrete. Hmmm peanut butter and jam

Tuna in oil is far nicer than soggy bland tuna in water.

Please stop Dickie, you are going to give me nightmares!

ok i will stop- but what are your views on taramasalata?? Truly the daddy of antisocial foodstuffs. I found it smeared on the keyboard of our (shared) computer at work.
Looks a nice colour- and should, in fact, taste nice. I would have to be put under a general before i let that stuff in my gob.
oh and tinned salmon.
ermmm... no that's it really

dickie have you tried peanut butter and nutella on toast?

OMG!

[shudders]

That's a whole lot of nut. But I'm willing to give it a go.

....is it ok if i use your tea towel to wipe my hands on after I've eaten the peanut butter, gracie?!!!

If anybody does that I will not be responsible for my actions!!!!

My food phobias started during pregnancy. I had the most horrendous morning sickness and couldn't walk through the kitchen without vomiting. I got over most of them after DS was born (remember crying and telling DH how happy I was that I didn't feel sick just hours later!) but a few of them are still lingering on.

dickie you will thank me for introducing you

That's awful- I just extended my range of foodstuffs and ate things i hadn't eaten for years like salad cream and sausages. In fact my range extended so much that I needed at least 5 meals a day to satisfy the cravings.
Needless to say it took a while to get back to my pre-baby weight!

The terrible part was that one of my hated food stuffs was chocolate. If I even got a whiff of someone else eating it I would barf in the middle of the street! Everyone thought I was drunk. Not a good look when you are pregnant.
I mostly lived off ice lollies and jelly (midwife suggestion as at least it kept my fluids up) with vitamins. Fortunately me and DS survived!

I too had to avoid the kitchen in a morning when pregnant - I couldn't leave any dirty dishes out, things had to be washed and put away - I can still feel the waves of nausea now and DS is nearly 2! I seemed to have the sense of smell of some kind of she-wolf. I told DH on a regularly basis that he 'just smelt funny'.

Back to OP - funnily enough was thinking about this today - the advertising moguls are very good at making us think we NEED things and we are somehow lacking if we don't sign up to any new fangled developments. It's just what they do.

My doggies love the tuna drainings mixed with thier biscuits and I love it when the come up to me afterwards to say thank you with their tuna breath. Yum.

We all love salmon in our house but I can't stand the strong aftersmell of it. bleurgh.

When DS has had sardines and he goes to climb on his daddy, it is funny to see his daddy's face contort at his fishy son. he he.

I once took DS to an opticians appointment with me and had made him a tuna sandwich to keep him occupied without really thinking - that examination room HONKED. I had to apologise and she politely said she couldn't smell anything. Big fib - it ponged.

So there are this evening fishy tales

I loathe trying to drain the tuna. But the thought of the previous posters dog/tuna breath makes me want to heave...

My husband calls it 'dog-nose' when you are pregnant. My sister had it too.

Oh my dear god - my stomach is churning. all my fish fears summed up in one posting. I can smell that opticians examination room.
I will not be getting pets now either.

i am a complete failure at draining tuna, i just made a tuna pasta dish and i had to go bath, i squeezed it all over the chuffin place,

HOWEVER

the pre drained stuff tastes foul! And yes it is one of those things we just dont need!

I want something I can just stab through the lid to drain it all away, then open with a tin opener.

Like a metal spout thing with a sharp end.

Tastes better in oil but a major pain to drain it, you get it dribbling down your fingers. Very annoying. I haven't seen the ad but will watch with interest.

My DH is banned for making tuna mayo sarnies, as he does not drain well enough and you kind of get this slop mixture instead of a nicely bound one.

I saw the advert, but imagined a lump of dryish tuna - ugg.

It's the smell

The smell of peanut butter is equally foul. Especially on someones breath.

And it looks like baby poop.