the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?

I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!

John Kuthe...

"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
...
> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>
> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>
> John Kuthe...

I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam? Can't
remember but often the metal strip broke off, leaving me to have to attempt
the can opener on an odd shaped can.

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
.. .
>> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>
>> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>
>I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam? Can't
>remember but often the metal strip broke off, leaving me to have to attempt
>the can opener on an odd shaped can.

Yeah, that was always the point of failure with the key opening
system. Still, I can remember opening the sardine can on my mom's
electric can opener, and it being kind of cool as the rounded off
rectangle can opeped, the edge being fed throuigh the opener's
electrically driven wheels.

John Kuthe...

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
.. .
>> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>
>> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>
>I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?

Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
ago.
http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN

Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
> >>
> >> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
> >>
> >> John Kuthe...
> >
> >I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>
> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
> ago.
> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN

I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
replaced with the flip tops...

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>> .. .
>> >> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>> >>
>> >> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>> >>
>> >> John Kuthe...
>> >
>> >I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>
>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>> ago.
>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>
>I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>replaced with the flip tops...

I remember when canned beverages first came out, no kind of tab, you
needed a church key, the cap had real cork as a seal.

On 6/9/2014 11:41 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>
>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>> replaced with the flip tops...
>
> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
> on one.
>
> -sw
>
I remember those stories! Don't drop the tab into the can, you'll
swallow it and choke or cut your esophagus when you swallow it. Yeah,
right.

Jill

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>
> > I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
> > replaced with the flip tops...
>
> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
> on one.
>
> -sw

Worse, people would toss the tabs on the beach and you'd cut your foot
Flip tabs eliminated that problem.

On 2014-06-09 10:37 AM, Pete C. wrote:
>
> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>>>
>>>> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>
>>> I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>
>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>> ago.
>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>
> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
> replaced with the flip tops...
>


I thought that you were my vintage. I remember pop cans needing a can
opener. I am pretty sure that I also remember when pop cans were
introduced. It used to always be sold in bottles. Doing a little
research I gather that cans were first used in the mid 50s for
distribution to troops overseas but Coke introduced canned pop in 1960.

I have a faint recollection of cans with a conical top and screw cap,
but I don't remember if that was used with pop cans or just for beer.

On 6/9/2014 12:03 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>
> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>>> replaced with the flip tops...
>>
>> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
>> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
>> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
>> on one.
>>
>> -sw
>
> Worse, people would toss the tabs on the beach and you'd cut your foot
> Flip tabs eliminated that problem.
>
Jimmy Buffett (Margaritaville)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQc2qCfj1Yg

"I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top..." :-D

Jill

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:27:29 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2014-06-09 10:37 AM, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>>>>
>>>>> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>>>>
>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>
>>>> I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>>
>>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>>> ago.
>>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>>
>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>> replaced with the flip tops...
>>
>
>
>I thought that you were my vintage. I remember pop cans needing a can
>opener. I am pretty sure that I also remember when pop cans were
>introduced. It used to always be sold in bottles. Doing a little
>research I gather that cans were first used in the mid 50s for
>distribution to troops overseas but Coke introduced canned pop in 1960.
>
>I have a faint recollection of cans with a conical top and screw cap,
>but I don't remember if that was used with pop cans or just for beer.

Those cans were all steel, they had a conical top that was capped with
the same cap used on bottles.
http://www.conetops.com/gallery.php

On 2014-06-09 12:03 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>
>> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
>> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
>> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
>> on one.
>>
>> -sw
>
> Worse, people would toss the tabs on the beach and you'd cut your foot
> Flip tabs eliminated that problem.
>


Before pop cans we had only glass bottles and people used to toss them
when they were finished. There were broken bottles just about
everywhere. Those tabs were nowhere near the hazard that the broken
glass was.

On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:27:29 AM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-06-09 10:37 AM, Pete C. wrote:
>
> > I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
> > replaced with the flip tops...

Coors had a cool deal where you pressed down two circles: one to drink from
and one to be a vent hole.

>
> I thought that you were my vintage. I remember pop cans needing a can
> opener. I am pretty sure that I also remember when pop cans were
> introduced. It used to always be sold in bottles. Doing a little
> research I gather that cans were first used in the mid 50s for
> distribution to troops overseas but Coke introduced canned pop in 1960.
>

The first canned pop we got was Shasta. We kids lost the Ekco can piercer,
so I used the Swing-a-way to remove the whole top. It was cool, like drinking
from an aluminum tumbler.

> I have a faint recollection of cans with a conical top and screw cap,
> but I don't remember if that was used with pop cans or just for beer.

Just for beer. The advantage to the breweries was that you could fill
them using existing bottling equipment.

My dad's uncle favored cans for fishing. After rowing out, he would put
them in a net bag and drop them into the lake to keep cool.

On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:27:29 AM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:

>
> I have a faint recollection of cans with a conical top and screw cap,
> but I don't remember if that was used with pop cans or just for beer.

The only conical top cans in my day were the ones HEET gas antifreeze came
in.

http://camelsnose.files.wordpress.co...an-vintage.png

On 6/8/2014 9:58 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>
> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>
> John Kuthe...
>

Mine, too. I was thinking the same a couple of weeks ago when I opened
a can for lunch

--
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"Pete C." > wrote in message
...
>
> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>> .. .
>> >> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>> >>
>> >> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>> >>
>> >> John Kuthe...
>> >
>> >I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>
>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>> ago.
>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>
> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
> replaced with the flip tops...

My mom made curtains out of those pull tabs. Walk through curtains. As you
can imagine, she didn't keep them up for very long! They were a tad sharp
and loud when you walked through them. I used to use them as hangers for
various craft projects. One favorite was to make little plaques. Some were
3D and used greeting cards and others had things made of bread dough on
them. I also used to paint scenes on driftwood. The pop top could easily
be glued on the back and then you didn't have to buy a hanger to put on
them.

"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>>> .. .
>>> >> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>> >>
>>> >> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>> >>
>>> >> John Kuthe...
>>> >
>>> >I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>>
>>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>>> ago.
>>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>>
>>I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>>replaced with the flip tops...
>
> I remember when canned beverages first came out, no kind of tab, you
> needed a church key, the cap had real cork as a seal.

I don't remember the cork but I do remember having to punch holes in the
can. I also remember the Coke machines with the lids that opened. You put
your coin in, then threaded the bottle around to the point where it could
come out. Then you popped the top off with the opener that was on the
machine.

"Pete C." > wrote in message
...
>
> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>> > I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>> > replaced with the flip tops...
>>
>> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
>> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
>> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
>> on one.
>>
>> -sw
>
> Worse, people would toss the tabs on the beach and you'd cut your foot
> Flip tabs eliminated that problem.

Remember the pull tab nonsense where people thought if they saved them, some
sort of miracle would happen? Firemen would take them and then turn them in
so some cancer patient could get chemo or some such thing.

Okay this one says it was for dialysis.

http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp

I actually heard many versions of that story. Some people I know just
insisted that I save the tabs for them and that I was being cruel and
selfish if I wouldn't. They wanted so badly to believe that it was true.

Another food related rumor. If you got a Tootsie Pop wrapper with an Indian
on it, you could trade it in for a free Pop. I don't know why but it seemed
pretty hard to get one that had the complete Indian. And because of the way
they were wrapped, you couldn't tell without unwrapping it. The Indian
always appeared (when he did) in the area where it was wrapped the tightest.

On Monday, June 9, 2014 4:35:27 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Before pop cans we had only glass bottles and people used to toss them
> when they were finished. There were broken bottles just about
> everywhere. Those tabs were nowhere near the hazard that the broken
> glass was.

You must be in the USA.

http://www.richardfisher.com

On 2014-06-10 8:21 AM, Helpful person wrote:
> On Monday, June 9, 2014 4:35:27 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Before pop cans we had only glass bottles and people used to toss them
>> when they were finished. There were broken bottles just about
>> everywhere. Those tabs were nowhere near the hazard that the broken
>> glass was.
>
> You must be in the USA.
>

You would be as wrong about that as you are about many other things when
you offer your supposedly helpful suggestions.

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:21:34 -0700 (PDT), Helpful person
> wrote:

>On Monday, June 9, 2014 4:35:27 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Before pop cans we had only glass bottles and people used to toss them
>> when they were finished. There were broken bottles just about
>> everywhere. Those tabs were nowhere near the hazard that the broken
>> glass was.
>
>You must be in the USA.

Not everyone in the US tosses them, many municipalities impose a
deposit so it would be rare they would be tossed, and even those few
that are discarded are picked up by kids for pocket money and by
homeless people for buying food and booze. Now where I live in NY all
bevrage bottles/cans have a 5¢ deposit, I return mine and I sometimes
find them on the road shoulder where I live, I pick them up before I
mow... sometimes I find unopened beer bottles, probably tossed from a
vehical being persued by the cops... one morning there was a whole six
pack of Heinekin on my front lawn, put it in my fridge and drank it of
course, and then collected the deposit too.

Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> one morning there was a whole six
> pack of Heinekin on my front lawn, put it in my fridge and drank it of
> course,

Very foolish thing to do, imo. ;-O

On 6/10/2014 3:04 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>>> .. .
>>> >> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
>>> >>
>>> >> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
>>> >>
>>> >> John Kuthe...
>>> >
>>> >I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?
>>>
>>> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
>>> ago.
>>> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN
>>
>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>> replaced with the flip tops...
>
> My mom made curtains out of those pull tabs. Walk through curtains. As
> you can imagine, she didn't keep them up for very long! They were a tad
> sharp and loud when you walked through them. I used to use them as
> hangers for various craft projects. One favorite was to make little
> plaques. Some were 3D and used greeting cards and others had things
> made of bread dough on them. I also used to paint scenes on driftwood.
> The pop top could easily be glued on the back and then you didn't have
> to buy a hanger to put on them.

I knew a fellow who was into Medieval festivals. He made himself a suit
of chain mail from pop tops.

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"Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>>>> replaced with the flip tops...
>>>
>>> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
>>> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
>>> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
>>> on one.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> Worse, people would toss the tabs on the beach and you'd cut your foot
>> Flip tabs eliminated that problem.
>
> Remember the pull tab nonsense where people thought if they saved them,
> some sort of miracle would happen? Firemen would take them and then turn
> them in so some cancer patient could get chemo or some such thing.
>
> Okay this one says it was for dialysis.
>
> http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp
>
> I actually heard many versions of that story. Some people I know just
> insisted that I save the tabs for them and that I was being cruel and
> selfish if I wouldn't. They wanted so badly to believe that it was true.
>
> Another food related rumor. If you got a Tootsie Pop wrapper with an
> Indian on it, you could trade it in for a free Pop. I don't know why but
> it seemed pretty hard to get one that had the complete Indian. And
> because of the way they were wrapped, you couldn't tell without
> unwrapping it. The Indian always appeared (when he did) in the area
> where it was wrapped the tightest.

When I was a kid I got a tootsie pop wrapper with the Indian and star on
it, and mailed it in to the company asking if I would get a prize. They
wrote me back saying that this was an urban legend, but they also GAVE ME A
WHOLE BIG BAG OF FREE TOOTSIE POPS! From this experience, I can ascertain
nothing except that Hershey (IIRC) has excellent customer service, Tootsie
Pops must be cheap to produce, and the "urban legend" is actually true at
least sometimes.