What the Lyle's Golden Syrup Logo Actually Shows, Not What I Expected
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I have never noticed this before even after buying quite a few tins of Lyle's syrup over the years
I always thought as others probably did, it is a sleeping lion
But the meaning is a bit more gruesome
It is actually showing a dead lion swarming with insects and is from a story about Samson from the bible
Abram Lyle created this in 1881 from when he started selling golden syrup
The Lion and the Bees story tells of Samson killing a young lion with his bare hands after it approached and roared at him. He returned a few days later to finds that a swarm of bees have made a hive inside the lions carcass
Samson then takes the honey from the hive and gives it to his parents , and when they asked where it was from he said "Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet."
Which is a weird thing to say , it must have been a Samson thing
I will never look at a tin of Lyles in the same way anymore, the bees inside its' carcass is engrained in my mind now
They also mention HP sauce in the article and where this title comes from
HP means Houses of Parliament , the picture of it is on the front of the bottle
Apparently a grocer called Frederick Gibson Garton registered the name HP Sauce in 1895 after hearing that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving it.
I wonder how many more food products have undiscovered meanings behind their logos ?
www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/people-only-just-discovering-depressing-28732790
I knew Mirror "journalists" weren't too clever with their words - but this one, even in the first paragraph, is demonstrating he's not too good at sums either:
"Lots of Brits will be familiar with Lyle's Golden Syrup, having launched over 150 years ago in 1881"
1881 was only 141 years ago.
Furthermore he got the dates wrong anyway, it wasn't formulated until 1883 and launched in 1885.
davidstockport I notice a lot of journalists not only getting the facts wrong but also making spelling mistakes , the worse offenders are from yahoo news , you could comment on them at one time but they removed the option a while ago , since then they seem to have gotten worse
davidstockport Samson broke his Nazarite vows and duffed up a lion to impress a luscious Philistine lady lol. Came a cropper though.
There are carnivorous bees or vulture bees which feed only on meat .I don't suppose the honey would taste very nice though in so far as it comes from cadavers!er like said Lion
MelissaLee1963 I would leave that one for the asian community, they like crunchy grasshoppers too M
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