Kitchen utensils

There comes a point in a man's life when he realises that hacking the top off a can of tuna or soup with a pair of wire cutters or a hack saw isn't really quite what polite society is expecting. The end result is exactly what you'd expect... a can that looks like it has lost a fight with a hack saw and plenty of added metal filings in your soup :-)

Suffice to say that I stood in the utensils aisle at Tesco and wished for less choice. I just want a can opener. I'd like to be able to introduce the can and the opener and, once the initial introductions are done, have the top come off the can. How hard can it be? But ah, the ingenuity of mankind has produced 20 different kinds of can opener, each one promising to solve problems I'd never imagined existed let alone come across. Tesco, in their infinite wisdom have seen fit to offer this bewildering array of choice on the assumption that I actually care what colour the thing is or whether I need a little magnet so that the top of the can is held by the opener until I'm ready to drop it in the bin. Hang on... many cans are aluminium so that isn't going to be much use is it?

Finally, the choice was made. A white can opener that cuts the top off without leaving sharp bits at the lower end of the price range. Common sense and decency prevail again.

And then I realise that I've been ranting on about nothing more important than a can opener. Oh no, does that mean I'm turning into a gumpy old man?

Bah humbug.

S.