Can't get the fricking lids off these jars!

[Taranta]

I know this is a first world problem, but if anyone can offer any cunning solution to aid me try and get into these jars I would be most grateful. I have tried the usual techniques, tapping lid on floor, even took a hammer to one in a fit of pique. Nothing. Nothing at all...gah!

Loved reading this! We need more threads like this!

I think we should all buy jars of that tuna and have an opening contest. It will be named the tuna trophy and the fastest opener wins a prize (to be determined but maybe the winner can receive all the open jars or tuna).

DH also now interested in tuna. But Ddog has stuck by me (aka slept) through the whole saga, so....

How did you open it Jesus ????
You're magic powers?
Divine intervention?
Don't leave us hanging!!!

This thread should be in classics so that every poor sod who can't get into a jar can ask Jesus

Can you describe the opening technique? Did you gradually increase the force or go full on in with your firmest twist right away?

It smells lovely, btw. Even first thing in the morning combined with dog breath.

What a gloriously satisfying thread.

Surely a Classics nomination too

Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉

Now do Smart's marmalade

Oh Jesus @JesusInTheCabbageVan I missed the climax due to people viewing our house turning up early FFS. 10 means 10 not 9 fucking 30!!

I cannot believe you opened it just like that - what methodology?! Well, as many before me have said I clearly fucking loosened it .

I hope you're going to drain that tuna before you eat it, btw x

I will confess I gave it a brisk whack (lid edge) on the side of the table first, Old Testament style. In fairness to**@Taranta**, the seal broke with a very loud pop, so it must have been on quite tight. Trying to be kind here

Anyone else so excited that they think Jesus, Churro's and Tuna would make an excellent contender for classics?

@SummerHouse

Been reading the reviews on Waitrose and found this...

I feel vindicated!!

[quote JesusInTheCabbageVan]**@Taranta breakfast of champions I do them with a large bowl of Green and Blacks 80% dark chocolate melted in a splash of milk. It's how I imagine it would feel to start the day with a line of coke - pupils like pinheads right now.[/quote]
Haha that did make me laugh!

Well done on opening the jar. It must have been all that cocoa in the chocolate that help

oh...it's open! I can get about my day now!

I do need to know what @Taranta said to the PostOffice counter staff when posting the jar....I am not sure our Post Office would have allowed that to go through, they are more than a tad officious and interrogate people as to the contents of parcels! :D

is there an action packed video...we need to see the technique!

@Taranta... go on, try the second jar again, you know you want to. Put it in a box, rattle it about a bit, eat a large quantity of dark chocolate and then channel the fury and might of God.

Btw please do PM me your bank details so I can refund the postage and tuna cost (plus damages for the shame of revealing publicly what weak little doll hands you have).

The tap the side of the lid on the edge of the worktop is my way to open tough jars. That and washing up gloves for purchase.

@DameFanny

Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉

Now do Smart's marmalade

This!

Yes - Smart's pink marmalade has to be next.

Smart, are you prepared to sacrifice your jar to the greater good?

As an aside, if you say 'churros tuna' quite fast you sound like Alan Partridge saying Tiananmen Square

I could actually go into business with this, couldn't I? Jesus the Jar. I COULD BUY A CABBAGE VAN!

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow they did ask in the PO and I said 'oh, it's a clock...'

Now for the other fucker. I'm going to apply Jesus technique of hard slam and satisfying pop.

I bang the side of lids on concrete, and it's always worked.

It's what God/Jesus/bored Mumsnetters would want.

Amen.

Well done Jesus!

As an aside, the last time I went into our local Waitrose was Friday 20th March prior to 17 weeks of wfh and the place looked like it had been stripped by locusts. I actually felt sick.

However. I'm now back in the office and walk past it twice a day so I'll be in again soon.

I loved an earlier post who said the sardines looked like "tinned holidays"

Ddog has swooned due to the deliciousness of the tuna.