Joke: Open a tin of peas

A man called on a married couple whom he had not seen for some time. The door was opened by the woman to whom the man said, "Hello, Mabel, and how is Jack?"

"Oh," she replied, "didn't you know? He died a while ago."

"Well, I am sorry to hear that," the man said, "How did it happen?"

"Well," he informed him, "he went into the garden to pull a cabbage for dinner, when he collapsed and died."

"Dear, dear," said the man, "whatever did you do?"

"Well", she rejoined, "what could we do? We had to open a tin of peas".