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, 1 reply)

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)