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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy next-door neighbor found one of these in the grass...
How long has it been since anyone here has seen one of them?
For me, decades.
And I'm grateful for them being phased out, they were wasteful and dangerous.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)I recall boating, the game warden would check to make sure you had a tab for every can you had.
They were dangerous in many ways.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)StarTrombone
(188 posts)And hang them on our Christmas trees
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Someone at the flea market had some old mayonnaise jars full of beer tabs. I didn't really pay any attention but I did notice them because I look at everything.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)Grazing cows would easily ingest those little blades and then have their insides shredded. Vets can treat iron "hardware" with magnets. Since those were made of aluminum the magnets can't help. My folks lost a lot of cows to those things. People are still horrible about throwing their trash everywhere including cow pastures, parks and waterways.
The stay on tabs are a big improvement, but people still tear them off. People, especially children, still ingest those tabs. They also do not show up on x-rays.
I am very glad that did not end up in someone's foot!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Hekate
(91,055 posts)I got him to the clinic, where the nurse handed me a basin of soapy/disinfectant water and told me to make him soak his filthy foot so she could actually treat it. He was in full-on owie-it-hurts-where's-my-mom mode, and didn't want to. Thank God his mom finally showed up.
I don't remember when pop-top cans were redesigned, but I'm so glad they were.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)Stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.
Sing it with me, now....
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Major Nikon
(36,828 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)A neighbor drank the stuff when I was a kid and I remember those pull off tops.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Archae
(46,379 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Grandpa's truck. It truly needed stitches, but we were just poor country folk, so Grandma held me while I cried, then she took care of it. Had a half-moon shaped scar on that knee for years and years. Even as an adult, the remnants persist.
When the new tabs first came out we were teens, and already had jobs as the weekly (or more) clean up crew at our local racetrack. Made damn good money. 1970's we made a minimum of $20 each per race, plus if it was a heavy crowd or special race we made more. Sometimes the owners would tip us as well.
We cleaned up every last piece of scrap and trash there was on the entire grounds- under every bleacher, all around the grounds, the pits, the track itself, and the parking lots. Saw a LOT of those tabs. Picked up enough for 10 lifetimes. Cut myself on more than one.
Sometimes, a small modicum of progress is made. This I can say is one.
BlueSpot
(856 posts)I remember because I had to write an essay for English class explaining how to do something. I wrote my essay on how to open these new kinds of tabs.
greendog
(3,127 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)But the free market being what it is, by the time anyone realizes the problem, there will be billions of those suckers already out there.
tblue37
(65,556 posts)And for some reason that reminded me of S&H green stamps.
I am soooo old!
Archae
(46,379 posts)Gotta be careful opening those!
Zorro
(15,760 posts)I still remember them from back in the day.
Bucky
(54,106 posts)10, 2, and 4 to me now means I'll have one in October, one in February, and then 4go any other fake sugar drinks the rest of the year.
tblue37
(65,556 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Still use them in China. I am glad we do not have them...but there is no more satisfying way to open a beer!! Too bad the beer in China is not fit to drink!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,387 posts)"Stepped on a pop top, Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home."
Grandpa, what was a pop top?
Bucky
(54,106 posts)That Xanex isn't going to wash itself down
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,387 posts)just in case...
trof
(54,256 posts)The "Church Key"
Freddie
(9,283 posts)I'm old enough to remember when the pop-tab was a new thing, previously you had to use one of those. My grandpa owned a luncheonette and gave away "fancy" ones ("Compliments of Charlie M___'s Restaurant" and I still have mine. Use it every Thanksgiving to open the cranberry sauce.
trof
(54,256 posts)parkia00
(572 posts)The parks here are filled with them. Fill a pail and maybe I can get rid of them at the scrappers.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)brewens
(13,682 posts)So it would have been kind of hard to accidentally swallow one, but no freakin' way I ever did that! Usually at a beach, we'd be using our first empty for that and cigarette butts.
braddy
(3,585 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)I have several of those Coors cans in my collection. It was not a good design as the can tended to get shook up during the opening process.
The weirdest design features a wire and lever system that opens the top. Pretty convoluted.
Bucky
(54,106 posts)Mom was convinced I was gonna choke on one of them eventually. But I never did and it saved how many other kids from cutting a toe on one of those.
KatyMan
(4,223 posts)that plot, a guy guzzling beer and dropping the tops into the can when he opened them, and one got stuck in his throat. It was my favorite show when I was a kid, and after watching that one I NEVER did that again
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt