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We need a word for the specific anxiety you feel when peeling back the lid, hoping you don’t get flicked with fishy oil
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We need a word for the specific anxiety you feel when peeling back the lid, hoping you don’t get flicked with fishy oil


Maybe I should wear sardine goggles.

by muffinartillery

27 Comments

  2. Active-Dog2691

    We hate stinky fish flaps, sometime I take off a good shirt I’m wearing before diving in deep

  6. PhilTrollington

    The splatter scaries. As in “Peeling back that thick lid and seeing the bright orange oil totally gave me the splatter scaries.”

    Now we need a term for the anxiety experienced when fearing that the tab on your tin will snap off. Tab terror? “Every time I open a tin from Güeyu Mar I experience tab terror.”

  8. mmchicago

    A sniglet in the making. Where’s Rich Hall when you need him?

  11. SunSeek

    Reading this, I thought of opening it in a ziplock bag but I don’t even do that. I’ve known a few people who do but their wives can smell it on them even with such protections taken. It’s a real fear. It needs a name.

  12. Jasbaer

    No worries, us Germans have a specific word for it:

    Konservenöffnungsfurcht

  15. Ronin_1999

    Also if someone can come up with a term for the anxiety of getting slashed by the opened tin top and the subsequent infection from fishy oil, that would be helpful as well..

  18. Randall_Genistrovia

    Ok… I just realized today you can peel it back with one finger and simply hold another finger against the part that does that. Simple as that. It won’t suddenly pop back, because it can’t.

  22. Timely-Shift-1429

    For me, the initial pull doesn’t ever splatter, but sometimes the oil spills out cause there’s so much. The thing that use to get me all the time was trying to remove the lid. Then I realized I can just move the lid back and forth til it falls off.

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