Tin of beans
Can of beer
Tin of beans
Can of beer
Can of drink and tin of food ..... this is the way
Can of beans and a tinny?
Tin of beans and a canny
(Not really)
This is the way.
I think you tinnot use them interchanebly at all
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one thinking about that. I thought maybe it was a colloquialism I was unfamiliar with, like finna (up till 5 years ago, I had no idea that was a word).
Dialects are weird, right? But, personally, if I'm referring to the fictional Belgian adventurer I say tin; if it's the French burlesque dance routine it's can.
I switch between the two fairly freely. Pretty much always can for drink, but I think I marginally favour tin for food.
I'm in Swindon, which has a fairly mongrel West Country-meets-London-meets-Midlands accent, which probably explains the prevalence of both.
Tin: probably food but can be a drink if specified
Can: probably a drink but can be food if specified
Tinnie: beer
Edinburgh calling. Food comes in tins. Juice comes in cans. Yes, you heard me.
I think I use both interchangably with no logic behind it
Usually tin of food, can of drink. But only with about 80% consistency; sometimes I swap them. I'm from the south-east.
Bowie sat in a tin can
I call them tins when I want to sound British, personally.
Not quite a direct answer, but since watching Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, we've enjoyed referring to things in tins/cans as trapped potatoes, trapped beans etc.
I always use tins for cupboard food like beans, soup, and tinned tomatoes. For cans of pop or beer I use cans normally but sometimes I use tins. Sometimes up here in the north east you'll hear people refer to tins of beer as tinnies.
I'll have a tin of spam, a tin of beans and wash that bad boy down with a can of McEwan's Export.
I'm assuming this is about drinks rather than a tin of baked beans, but yeah as a southerner it's a can if it's thinner metal drinks container.
I’m from South-West Scotland, and I’d say tin for drinks and for food. A metallic container of Coca-Cola is “a tin of juice”.
I can I can't??
American expat in Scotland. I say can. But I understand tin.
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