The Greatest Lie Told to Man...

As for corned beef tins ..... with the "key".

Yes, the key to how to cut yourself.

I remember feeling so grown up when I first mastered the art of opening a corn beef tin.
We used to have a spare opener in the kitchen drawer…but by far the old sardine lids that rolled off were hardest.that is .until the ring pull, now you can risk injury and oil or sauce everywhere😠
M&S sell corned beef in a round tin.. I think 🤔

If we eat corned beef we buy the packets.

Even worse is when the 'Peel here' is to reveal the how to cook instructions. The 'here' won't 'peel'....it tears half way through.....you end up trying to read half the instructions and guess what was on the other half.....then realise you've been holding the pack upside down to do all this and the sauce has poured out all over your slippers.

😂😂😂

While we are on the subject of disappointing merchandise, how can fun size be more fun than normal size when it often less than half the size?

Also has anybody else noticed how things are shrinking. I buy duck breasts every now and again and the last lot I bought were the same make and the same price but about half the size.

Indigo8

While we are on the subject of disappointing merchandise, how can fun size be more fun than normal size when it often less than half the size?

Also has anybody else noticed how things are shrinking. I buy duck breasts every now and again and the last lot I bought were the same make and the same price but about half the size.

😁fun size? More like disappointingly small size.

fun size

More like "how funny, that was only one mouthful".

One size fits all. Really? I don't think so.

While we on the subject of thing difficult to open. How about those boxes of laundry pods, the squidgy things. It says "press both sides here" . well it's OK if you've got hands like a builders labourer. I haven't, I fight with the damn things and often resort to to rude words but it doesn't help. I really like to use those things but why do you need superhuman strength to get into them

I needed some new kitchen scissors as my old ones had decided to divorce and had fallen into two halves.

I bought some new ones from the local hardware shop and they were encased in a tough plastic shell which proved almost impenetrable especially as I only had nail scissors on hand.

Finally, after a long and bitter struggle, I managed to extract the scissors only to find they were held on a piece of card by three thick cable ties.

BERYLC

While we on the subject of thing difficult to open. How about those boxes of laundry pods, the squidgy things. It says "press both sides here" . well it's OK if you've got hands like a builders labourer. I haven't, I fight with the damn things and often resort to to rude words but it doesn't help. I really like to use those things but why do you need superhuman strength to get into them

Maybe that’s natures way of stopping you using something that’s polluting our oceans.

Our ‘upgraded’ burglar alarm system really irks me - had to be done after the line went digital, or it wouldn’t work, so we were told by the ADT man.

So instead of a simple, very clear panel, where you just entered 4 digits to set and turn off, we now have a smaller one where it’s much harder to see the numbers, plus a screen that tells us what the weather’s like, temperature and all - and a bloody irritating American woman’s voice telling us that the system has been ‘armed’ or ‘disarmed’.

TBH I had already ceased to expect technological ‘improvements’ to make life simpler!

I agree whole heartedly with your last comment Witzend why does anything tech related assume I have a level of knowledge which I really don't.

My husband bought a pack of Twix biscuits yesterday - they were the single finger ones rather than the usual twin pack. My GS went to get one in the afternoon and said 'Granny, why are these so small? and he was right, they were tiny!

Thankyou Allira I’ll look out for one of those. Thankyou to all the posters on this thread. I’ve laughed so much. Peter Kay should buy this material for his shows!

We once bought a foreign made oven and heading the instructions was this inspiring sentence- “INSTALLING THIS MACHINE COULD NOT BE SIMPLE”

I agree with all of these. I also get annoyed at cooking instructions which are put on the bottom of packets. If u want to leave half the contents in the packet, u have to lift the packet up, and read from underneath.

Blinking microscopic cooking instructions when I have to use a magnifying glass🙄
My recent can of corned beef came without a key. I opened it using an ordinary can opener and was rewarded with lumps of corned beef to use…(will check next time).

last night I practically ended up on the floor tryingto open the biscotti derved with my coffee

I pulled the little red tag, and it just came off. I tried tearint round the dhed, took my teeth to it alwithout success. In the end DD used a prong of the fork she was using to eat her dessert.

Had it been anything other than biscotti biscuits I would have given up!
Perhaps I might persevere with good shortbread 😀

When you eventually get the plastic wrapper off the biscotti there's always a little bit of the plastic that somehow clings to your hand by static electricity. By the time you finally manage to put it down your coffee is stone cold.

Definitely! One of the few they will eat but drives me mad!

I have a big beef with some newly designed long life semi skimmed milk cartons from Lidl, now that the lid is not allowed to be removed completely from the carton they have for some reason designed a carton where the lid is sunken into the top of the container meaning that when you unscrew it lots of milk comes gushing out and when you try to replace the lid, milk caught in the lid gushes out as well.
I now open it over the sink.