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Soldiers in the trenches of the Great War used bayonets to open theirs. I suppose a few corned beef tin cuts were the least of their worries.

Third of a tin of corned beef, semi mashed with a fork, half a small tin of baked beans mixed together add pepper and Worcestershire sauce and zapped in the microwave while the toaster does it job. Plenty of butter on the toast, tip the hash on the toast and brew a good coffee. Top breakfast!

Talking of fray bentos, as kids in bulwell someone spread the rumor that there was a ghost train at midnight that ran along bulwell disused rail embankment, as you enter bulwell hall park from I think Springfield road ? So we dared each other to camp out and see which was the bravest to face the phantom ghost train , we said bring a fray bentos pie , and we will cook it on our camp fire, as the fire got going some one said who brought a tin opener ? We all looked at each other gormless, no tin opener so we starved that night and there was no ghost train, someone must of been tell

Berkel and Parnall seems to be the name. And looking at the photos I remember such things in shops. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8015356/bacon-slicer-bacon-slicer

I was down at Nottingham General one day after a Pit accident and there were three Corned Beef tin injuries there (all cuts). I was glad I worked at Newstead Pit instead of Fray Bentos, it was sfer.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a tin of corned beef and when we decided to use it, to my dismay the key was missing. 'Er indoors went into panic mode like it was Armageddon. Me , I just got me long nosed pliers and used them. Came off quite easily, however, I couldn't get the strip of me pliers so had to use another pair to unroll it off the jaws. Life is so complicated.

I open the tin by using the can opener both ends, then push the thin end out the thick end. Voila.

I love corned beef but really dislike opening corned beef tins - the key sometimes goes a bit ‘wrong’ and its easy to cut yourself as the edges are very sharp. Then it’s the prising it out of the tin!

Beekay corned beef hash is so easy to make! We like to use new potatoes cut in half but you can use ordinary ones. Boil off the potatoes with white onion chopped and carrots sliced with only enough water to cover and when done add cubed corned beef from a can with the fat taken off (put corned beef in fridge the night before, easier to cut) Add two crumbled oxo cubes and leave the lid off and keep simmering to thicken. We call it “scouse” My husband takes it to work quite often. This is a recipe handed down from his family. Great with crusts of bread and loads of proper butter.

I can remember when the Falklands War was on that corned beef was quite difficult to get hold of as a lot came from Argentina. Folks getting killed and us Brits were wittering about corned beef!

How many people knew this ? From Wikipedia. Fray Bentos is the capital city of the Río Negro Department, in south-western Uruguay A pie named after a South American city.

@mary1947 Hague terrace ? Do yer know Winston Churchill avenue ?......... . .well it's nowhere near there , I am terrible at directions , look at me got lost and fell in love with a brown eyed dusky maiden and ended up in the Philippines !!!!!

I knew a grocer who sat on his bacon slicer and got behind with his orders.

Indeed we did Beekay.........they came in 6lb tins same shape as the 12 oz Fray Bentos ones....... Saw many accidents when staff were opening them.... The most common brand we used at Marsdens was 'Libby's''......... Most bacon machines cut bacon on what was called a number 6 in thickness.......corned beef and other cooked meats were cut thinner on number 4...........However the more skilled assistants would use a long knife.........obviously i was one such...

Ben's type of shops used to get corned beef in bigger tins and they were opened with industrial tin openers (like catering type). You could then buy it loose. The grocer would put it in the bacon slicer and cut you a quarter or two ounce etc, depending how much mum asked for.

Why is corned beef packed in tins which need that kind of opener ? Surely someone could have invented a different method of packaging by now.

Sadly Chesterfield could not stop Wrexham from taking over the top spot from County as they lost 2-1 last night. Wrexham are one point clear with a game in hand. If it comes down to the wire County have the better goal difference at the moment so let's all hope that "that man' keeps finding the back of the net so if push comes to shove County could win on goal difference.

When I was young I remember standing by the side of the road taking car numbers (i.e. the registration numbers). Totally pointless exercise but it kept me amused for a few years. I remember the novelty of seeing the first suffix registrations in 1963. And nobody had personalised numbers back then.