That has brought to the surface something that happened when I was a kid, kind of similar but less life threatening.
My mum, an intelligent and educated woman BTW, used to heat tins of veg etc in boiling water. I really don't know why. We had a lot of tinned stuff in those days when they didn't fly in out of season stuff from Peru.
One day she left a tin of peas in a pan of boiling water on the stove. I and my brother were probably outside, Dad was out, and by great good fortune Mum was doing something in another room which is probably how she forgot she had put the pan on.
It boiled dry, and the tin exploded very audibly. They go on the side seam. Had there been anybody in the room there might have been a death by superheated peas. The mess was unbelievable, and largely on the upper walls and ceiling. Maybe the individual peas exploded, I don't recall there being any identifiably spherical ones.
I never heard of anyone else having a similar accident. Many years later there was a chip pan fire, that resulted in redecoration but was less traumatising than the great pea disaster.
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