Taxi driver ....
The fiance and I going home in a taxi one night after an evening at the local boozer. Accompanied by his guide dog and my white stick, so it's fairly obvious we're not exactly endowed in the eyesight department.
I say, "Are you hungry ? I'm starving."
"Yeah," says he, "What have you got that I can eat ?"
I consider my mainly empty fridge and reply with a laugh, "Well, I had a 15 kilogram sack of dog food delivered today."
He laughs at the joke.
Then the taxi driver says, straight faced, "Do you ever get your food mixed up with the dog's and eat dog food by mistake ?"
We are momentarily stunned by this ignorance (or at the assumption that someone could believe "blind" equates with "genuinely stupid") and then I say, with a valiant (I thought) effort to remain polite, "Well, no, because out food doesn't come in a huge sack, for a start ..."

I find it scary that someone so utterly mong-some is in charge of a motor vehicle !
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 15:33, 5 replies)

How do you tell tins apart?
I admit, though, that before your post I had assumed that blind people ate special food that came in sacks.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 18:18, closed)

lolz
Grin ... indeed, Guide Dogs for the Blind don't only supply the food for the dog, you get your dinner in the bag too. ;)

As for the tins, to be honest, sometimes you don't until you open them. But dog food would be pretty identifiable by the ming it produces, in any case. ;)

Basically, the idea is to make sure you put the tins away in certain places where you remember what they are, but the arse of it is that you need someone to tell you what is what before you put the bastard stuff away. But you can hear the difference between say, soup, and something like peas by shaking them. But custard for example and soup are tricky, but if you open the wrong one you can alway freeze it in a plastic thingy for later. You can get magnetic braille or audio labels too if you want. I don't do many tins personally, I cook from scratch with fresh stuff usually.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 22:11, closed)

It should not be too difficult...
... for packaging companies to print the name of the product in Braille on the top of the tin before sealing it.

Just something like "SOUP" or "PEAS" - or whatever - simply to make it identifiable.

Shouldn't be too hard, surely?
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 18:40, closed)

So there'll be a market for...
Something about the size of a hand-held scanner that 'read' the labels out loud for you?
(karnuvap, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 6:56, closed)

Though presumabley you'd have to see where the barcode is to get the thing to beep. The checkout dollies in my local tesco have enough trouble sometimes.
(Spiked_Rycroft The Prodigal Son, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 15:44, closed)