Why has no-one devised a better corned beef tin?

Cressers
Cressers Posts: 1,329
edited October 2010 in The bottom bracket
You'd think in these days of 'elf and safety an improved design would have been found. Opening one gives me some idea of how my dad, who was an Explosive Ordinance Disposal officer, felt when he was handling dodgy shells.

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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Why not?

    Apathy.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Or the people who feel the need to design a new tin from bitter experience are no longer able to hold a pencil or mouse...
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    More importantly, why has no-one devised edible corned beef?vomit-boy02-vomit-puke-sick-smiley-emoticon-000653-large.gif
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    It was those tins with the key that you had to unwrap the razor sharp slither of tin out....

    I remember as a kid, my mum cut herself very badly...

    That was a tin of ham though.....

    mmmmm corned beef...I like it.
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  • father_jack
    father_jack Posts: 3,509
    corned beef and brown sauce sandwiches yum
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  • cycologist
    cycologist Posts: 721
    I'm not sure which is the greater hazard to your health - the container or the content.
    (although I like both of them in a quaintly retro sort of way)
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    All I know is that the new, no oil tuna tins, are a revelation! Top tip - They can also be used to make perfect poached eggs, afterwards.
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  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
    edited October 2010
    http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news ... ILC-SEARCH

    Easy-open cans have evolved since their initial introduction. The first generation easy-open
    cans were opened using an integral key and used for products such as sardines and
    anchovies. Even though these cans pose a serious hazard to the user (and are a higher cost
    alternative to conventional cans) they still find use today in trapezoid format for solid meat
    packaging. Their ‘hinged’ opening is intended to make product removal easier. The main
    driver for their continued use is the perception that the cans convey the image of ‘tradition’
    and ‘heritage’. However, there appear to be no technical reasons why these products could
    not be packaged in alternative can formats. Some development work is required to develop
    a can suitable for solid meats, although it is technically possible. A complication to this is
    that the majority of solid meat products are packed in foreign locations (e.g. South
    America). Encouraging importers and foreign manufacturers to adopt a new can format
    may prove difficult. However, if end users, in this case meat suppliers and supermarkets
    demanded improved cans collectively, change may be possible.

    http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov. ... kging.pdf/
  • shm_uk
    shm_uk Posts: 683
    The only reason Corned Beef tins still exist with the clumsy key opening thingymajig is purely as a reminder of how stupid and incompetent human's generally are...

    Despite thinking of ourselves as being so wonderfully intelligent and advanced bla bla yada yada, the reality is we can't even cope with the simple task of opening a tin without injuring ourselves.

    Durrrrrr.
  • shm_uk
    shm_uk Posts: 683
    Weejie54 wrote:
    http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/186244/BRANDING-BRIEF-Princes-launches-ring-pull-corned-beef?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH


    Wowee.

    Another giant leap.. sorry, irrelevant shuffle.. forward for mankind.

    The pinnacle of 21st Century civilisation: a ring pull tin... something that's already been around for decades anyway so it's not even 'progress'...

    Excuse me for being utterly underwhelmed.

    :wink:
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    shm_uk wrote:
    The only reason Corned Beef tins still exist with the clumsy key opening thingymajig is purely as a reminder of how stupid and incompetent human's generally are...

    Despite thinking of ourselves as being so wonderfully intelligent and advanced bla bla yada yada, the reality is we can't even cope with the simple task of opening a tin without injuring ourselves.

    Durrrrrr.
    Yeah, all the other species are so much better at it...
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    My corned beef comes ready sliced in a plastic pack - don't see the problem myself :wink:
  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
    Wowee.

    Another giant leap.. sorry, irrelevant shuffle.. forward for mankind.

    The pinnacle of 21st Century civilisation: a ring pull tin... something that's already been around for decades anyway so it's not even 'progress'...

    Excuse me for being utterly underwhelmed.

    It was 7 years ago. Don't get too excited.
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    I devised one years ago, but when i patented it, elasto-plast bought me out :wink:
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Pross wrote:
    My corned beef comes ready sliced in a plastic pack - don't see the problem myself :wink:

    I find this is the best way to buy corned beef unless you fancy 5 hours in A&E having your hand stitched up.
  • TwistedSpirit
    TwistedSpirit Posts: 79
    Weejie54 wrote:
    http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/186244/BRANDING-BRIEF-Princes-launches-ring-pull-corned-beef?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

    Easy-open cans have evolved since their initial introduction. The first generation easy-open
    cans were opened using an integral key and used for products such as sardines and
    anchovies. Even though these cans pose a serious hazard to the user (and are a higher cost
    alternative to conventional cans) they still find use today in trapezoid format for solid meat
    packaging. Their ‘hinged’ opening is intended to make product removal easier. The main
    driver for their continued use is the perception that the cans convey the image of ‘tradition’
    and ‘heritage’. However, there appear to be no technical reasons why these products could
    not be packaged in alternative can formats. Some development work is required to develop
    a can suitable for solid meats, although it is technically possible. A complication to this is
    that the majority of solid meat products are packed in foreign locations (e.g. South
    America). Encouraging importers and foreign manufacturers to adopt a new can format
    may prove difficult. However, if end users, in this case meat suppliers and supermarkets
    demanded improved cans collectively, change may be possible.

    I tried this new fangled can...

    The corned beef was even more mangled after using forks and knives trying to get it out!
  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
    I tried this new fangled can...

    The corned beef was even more mangled after using forks and knives trying to get it out!

    If you want to make a hash (intentional) of it, do it in style (or Stihl).


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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Has anyone noticed that the tins that tinned pilchards come in has apparently not changed since at least the 2nd world war.... It must be in line for some kind of branding award!
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  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    i'm flippin starvin and then i read this

    hope there's a tin in the scullery, or even better a tin of Pek
  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    wiffachip wrote:
    i'm flippin starvin and then i read this

    hope there's a tin in the scullery, or even better a tin of Pek

    Nice. Pek is lovely. End of.

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