The amazing feta cheese tin

 I spotted a discussion about feta cheese, which reminded me, I promised to write a book about this seemingly little known phenomenon.

Years ago, before upcycling and repurposing, I lived in this remote little Greek village. There wasn't much to call entertainment, but one thing that always provided amazement and surprise was the many versatile uses for an old feta cheese tin. 

It comes in these big square tins and I can't remember ever seeing one thrown away.. they seem to go on forever.

I've seen street cleaning done with a broom and a feta tin on a stick, builders fill a tin with plaster and get his grandma to carry it up ladders to be applied, farmers with them strapped to the back of a motorbike to collect stray goats, used to make a grate for a fireplace, beach parasols have their pole planted in a tin of concrete to stop them blowing away, as bins next to the toilet that can't manage a poop let alone anything else so you chuck everything in there, for restaurants to collect waste for the pigs, involved in a multitude of children's games along with a stick/boiled egg/rock/what looks like someone's homework, as some kind of cockroach trap/competition to see if you can guess how many are in it, for the totally soul destroying job of picking olives/ emptying ashtrays in the bars/ collecting water from the tap in the square (because it's only on in homes for a few hours a day)/ dispensing church bread (we label it "choke you to death bread"....you get the idea.

Additional reading/sites of interest:

• https://www.inspiredbygreece.com/feta-tin-village/
• https://ideabygs.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-evolution-of-feta-cheese-tin-in.html?m=1

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