Caution - Contents May be Hot

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[TW]Fox

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I know all about the McDonalds coffee incident. This is slightly different.

Yesterday, I placed one of the new Heinz microwavable plastic beans tub thingies into the microwaved, and placed it on full power for 1 minute as per instructions.

Once I'd removed it from the Microwave, I went to remove the plastic film from the top of the pot and noticed it said, in big letters..

'CAUTION - CONTENTS MAY BE HOT'

What? Why is that there? Contents MAY be hot? I should damn well hope so given I've just microwaved them for 1 minute. Is there really, honestly, anyone who wouldnt expect a tub of beans just removed from the Microwave to be hot?

Why do we need such crap, retarded warnings on things? Do people have NO common sense?
 
Unfortunately, no, people do not have common sense. Surely your 5 plus years on here have made this obvious to you already?
 
in a closed cup steam builds up rapidly, pulling away the lid allows the steam to go at a faster rate of which a lot of people fail to antisipate and as a result the steam alone can burn their hand while pealing the lid back.
 
[TW]Fox;11008149 said:
'CAUTION - CONTENTS MAY BE HOT'



Why do we need such crap, retarded warnings on things? Do people have NO common sense?
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Fox in eats microwaves beens shock!

You can thank the American (and increasingly British) culture of suing for these stupid warnings. Oh and peoples IQ's are dropping every generation.
 
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I think the sticker means, may be hot, as in, hotter than your tongue and mouth is likely to withstand. Sure, they may just be the right temperature and what not for the majority of people, but microwaves can superheat liquid and thats not nice (although an effective cleaning method if water is heated in the microwave!).

I'd imagine its really there for no other reason that to protect Heinz ass from American people sueing. :)
 
But what if someone else tried to open your beans, unaware of the recent microwaving.
They would be in need of the warning that the contents maybe hot.
 
It's the world we now live in, where absolutely everything and everyone must state the bleedin' obvious!!


My personal opinion is that we should just remove the warning labels from everything and let nature solve it's own problems.
 
I believe they sell these in Wales as well. It wouldn't be cost effective to give us containers without the warning that the Welsh need.
 
Lysander said:
Exactly, they're just covering themsevles. That's why some nut bars or cereals have to say on the front CONTAINS NUTS.
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Next Heinz'll have to put "WARNING- may contain beans, heat and moderate flavours" on the label.

In the future, they'll have to cover every eventuality.

Currys "WARNING- may be spicy"
Dry Roasted Nuts "WARNING- may contain nuts and thirst"
Cigarettes "WARNING- may contain death"
Lager "WARNING- may cause idiocy"
Marmite "WARNING- may divide opinion"
 
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