Beverages and Blades - Traditional of Course

How disappointed are you when you buy a 6 of bottles to use your cap lifter and the dang things have pull tabs? Has anyone seen this before? (Other than on Micky's big mouths) Anyway the Mecktoberfest is very good so there is really no problems.


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Jiki said:
How disappointed are you when you buy a 6 of bottles to use your cap lifter and the dang things have pull tabs? Has anyone seen this before? (Other than on Micky's big mouths) Anyway the Mecktoberfest is very good so there is really no problems.


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If you’re old enough to remember, there was a time when soda and beer came in cans with pull off ring tops. Some would just drop the pull off ring back into the can and drink away. I had a buddy in grade school who did this and ended up swallowing the ring top. His mom took him to their doc and and he gave him a hand full of tongue depressors and told him to let him know when he found it. Sure enough he did the next day. Needless to say I stopped dropping my ring tops back into my sodas. 😜
 
This morning's beverage is a Peet's medium-dark blend.

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sf fanatic said:
If you’re old enough to remember, there was a time when soda and beer came in cans with pull off ring tops. Some would just drop the pull off ring back into the can and drink away. I had a buddy in grade school who did this and ended up swallowing the ring top. His mom took him to their doc and and he gave him a hand full of tongue depressors and told him to let him know when he found it. Sure enough he did the next day. Needless to say I stopped dropping my ring tops back into my sodas. 😜
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I read that ring-pull tabs were first used in 1965 (Iron City beer was an early adopter, apparently), and the current "stay tab" was first used in 1975 and used by most companies by 1980.

hornetguy said:
That was like, last week, right? 😂
I remember seeing guys opening beers with this.... commonly known as a "church key".....


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I have an opener almost identical to that (but mine is made by Ekco in Chicago) hanging on my fridge, and I use the "unpointy" end all the time for opening bottles. When I hear "church key", that's what I think of.

Jiki said:
I always considered these to be church key openers.
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Makes more sense to me to call that a church key based on shape, but that's not common usage where I've lived.

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Jiki said:
How disappointed are you when you buy a 6 of bottles to use your cap lifter and the dang things have pull tabs? Has anyone seen this before? (Other than on Micky's big mouths) Anyway the Mecktoberfest is very good so there is really no problems.


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I've seen them on a few continental beers, don't like 'em :thumbsup:
sf fanatic said:
If you’re old enough to remember, there was a time when soda and beer came in cans with pull off ring tops. Some would just drop the pull off ring back into the can and drink away. I had a buddy in grade school who did this and ended up swallowing the ring top. His mom took him to their doc and and he gave him a hand full of tongue depressors and told him to let him know when he found it. Sure enough he did the next day. Needless to say I stopped dropping my ring tops back into my sodas. 😜
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Nasty! :eek: I remember seeing folks do that when I was older, but at school, we used to flick them at each other by inserting the springy metal tab into the bottom of the ring (I dare say you did it too)! :D :thumbsup:

I remember seeing a science programme about ring-pull cans, not long before they came out, and the original idea, at least in the UK, was for the container to be cone-shaped, with a 'cup' that went over this, because the producers didn't think people would drink straight out of the can! :D :thumbsup:
 
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