Lyle’s golden syrup tin to have lion logo removed

Mollygo

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Bit of a sticky subject...

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Cillafan

Uncle Ben on rice packets, a happy, smiling figure to cheer you up

Because everyone loves a bit of racial stereotyping.... 🙄

More snowflakeism, it won't stop until they (the wokes) have Nelson's Column demolished because of it's imperialist connotations, makes me said really all our heritage and traditions are being swept away in the name of 'progress', I was also unhappy about no more photo of Uncle Ben on rice packets, a happy, smiling figure to cheer you up.

Glorianny, I was good at ' Scripture' according to the syllabus that was taught for the School Certificate, and I enjoyed it, however Scripture was not taught as religious devotions .

Bible stories are not 'religion'. I think modern people regard The Bible as literature not the word of God.

Schools still have to teach RE. But children don't have to do it. It has to educate them about different religions. So not scripture.

SeaWoozle
Though if you're going to teach "religion" to educate students on diversity, inclusion and culture, then it needs to be snippets of all of them.
It is, in state primary and CofE schools at at least. Whether other religious schools do the same, I don’t know.

Caleo

My middle aged sons never had Lyles Golden Syrup on the table so never had occasion to ask about the meaning of the logo. By contrast The Golden Syrup tin was regularly on the tea table when I was a child so I asked and was told the story of the lion and the motto underneath the picture of the lion.

Scripture is no longer one of the core subjects in most schools.

Scripture is no longer one of the core subjects in most schools

As it shouldn't be. Religion and education should be kept separate. You can teach children to be kind and respectful without barking the bible at them. It's irrelevant. But that's just my opinion, of course.

Though if you're going to teach "religion" to educate students on diversity, inclusion and culture, then it needs to be snippets of all of them.

I love the lion on the tin, for goodness sake leave it on, you can’t look for trouble and double meanings in everyone and everything. I’m going to buy a tin in protest

My middle aged sons never had Lyles Golden Syrup on the table so never had occasion to ask about the meaning of the logo. By contrast The Golden Syrup tin was regularly on the tea table when I was a child so I asked and was told the story of the lion and the motto underneath the picture of the lion.

Scripture is no longer one of the core subjects in most schools.

Mollygo I believe you are right!

I wonder if there has been a run on Golden Syrup. Maybe some purchasers empty the contents down the sink, wash the tin, and keep it as a display piece or to keep their emergency cash in.

Actually they’ve achieved more free publicity for their product than they could have imagined. It’s given rise to discussion on the news and in social media.
They’ve educated all those who didn’t know the origin of the image and then, if what Oldbat1 read is true, the change isn’t going to happen.
Clever marketing, or an accidental event?

JudyBloom

Another sign of our times, sadly. Whatever are they going to think of next! Down with this woke rubbish, we are all much worse off. We need some common sense back!

Woke, woke, woke! Yawn, yawn, yawn......

What's your suggestion then?

JudyBloom

Another sign of our times, sadly. Whatever are they going to think of next! Down with this woke rubbish, we are all much worse off. We need some common sense back!

Just found it on their Facebook page. “Lyles golden syrup”. Sorry can’t do links.

I’m sure I’ve read somewhere (sorry to those who like a link) that the company has no intention of changing their tins.

I did know the origin of the image on the tin, but I’m relieved to have syrup in a squeezy container, even though plastic is bad for the environment.
No matter how carefully we rinsed the lid or wiped the edges of the tin, it was always sticky. (Taught me about using a lever to lift something tricky though.)

Sadly, CoolCoco, there are many things you don't know.

CoolCoco artwork in the 1800s was very much into portraying gloomy, sentimental and quite shocking scenes, Thinking about wailing wives at Quaysides and fishermen drowned at sea floating away on the tide. People clad in black at funerals etc. just the way things were in those days.

I don’t know why anyone would “cherish” a tin of sugary stuff with a dead lion on it, but whatever floats your boat….

And there was me thinking all these years it was just having an afternoon snooze! And I'd never noticed the bees either. Oh dear.

I doubt that most people even twig that the lion’s dead, it looks like its having a snooze.
I don’t like the tins though as the lid gets all sticky, so buy the plastic bottle. Just have to have it with my porridge, finger lickin’ good.

Definitely keeping the original lion on the syrup tins. 👏👏 It is only the squeezy bottles that will have the new lions face design.

Confirmed by Tate and Lyles on Facebook as someone said earlier.

I bought a 'heritage' tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup. lion.bees, legend and all, today from Waitrose and shall cherish it.