Currently, almost all soda cans use the same type of opener, one that has a separate piece of metal attached to the can at a single spot which can rotate 360-degrees around. The metal-piece is used to depress the wide-mouth top into the can. But is that all? Can the metal-piece do something else?
Yes! It's designed to assist you in another way, but sadly few realize this.
The little hole in the metal-piece is intended to make it easy for you to use a straw. You swing the piece around so it's over the wide-mouth and then stick your straw through it. It will hold the straw in place. Otherwise, if you just put the straw into the wide-mouth opening, it will bounce around and not stay put.
Boy, you're so smart now!
I love these tidbits that you share--it makes me look at ordinary objects in a whole new light :) Thanks for this and hope you're having a great week! XOXO
ReplyDeleteHaha, I never thought of it that way! The other thing I find the tab helps with is keeping bugs out of your drink if you are outside! LOL
ReplyDeleteThank you for this PSA!!!!!!!!! Designed so much more intelligently than I realized :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a big-time straw user, and I have always done this!
ReplyDeleteI never drink out of soda cans and I don't use straws. I'm sticking this fact in my "Trivial Pursuit" section of my brain.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne
I never realized this, but read about it somewhere just a couple of days before. I can't bearing drinking from a can, though, I'm strictly a "glasses" girl! xxx
ReplyDeleteFancy that, I learned something new. Thank you. :)
ReplyDeleteI think I remember hearing about this at some point, but forgot until now! :-) So genius!
ReplyDelete-Kati
Almost Stylish
As a Long Islander of advanced age I am sure you can appreciate the bounty of the LI sound and that you also remember the earlier generation when cans were opened with a "pop-top tab".
ReplyDeleteAs a kid I loved to fish in the sound. During HS I had a girlfriend from Upper Brookville. Her father hated that his little princess would even consider dating the Italian kid from Westbury. Back then one of our local neighborhoods was even called "Greasy Hill"
Her father was a sailor and had a very nice sailboat that he sailed out of Oyster bay. From time to time the summer that we dated I was allowed to join them as they sailed the LI Sound. One day I asked if I could fish from the boat. All I had was my rod and a hook. I took a few 'pop-top tabs' and tied them above the hook and tossed the line off the back of his sailboat as we cruised the sound. I hooked a nice bluefish and as I was reeling it in her father came over and cut my fishing line. He said that "I told you that you could fish from the back of the boat. I never said you could bring a scaly, bloody bluefish on board". Suffice it to say that the young romance did not last much past the summer.
I do not think that the modern cans would have given me a good enough lure to nail that fish.
Pat
Pat, if you click on the link in my post (first sentence), you'll go to the Wiki page on can-openers which includes pop-top tabs.
DeleteThanks. I had missed the link. Nice to see the old pop top pull tab "bluefish" lure.
DeletePat
Wow I did indeed learn something new today! I never knew that, I don't think many people do. Not sure why they don't highlight this feature in their advertising then more people would know. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteAllie of ALLIENYC
www.allienyc.com
I did not know this secret! What a clever idea. Thanks for sharing this today!
ReplyDeleteI learned this trick just a few years ago and it blew my mind!
ReplyDelete-Ashley
Le Stylo Rouge
I used to have an old money hider that looked like a Campbell soup can.
ReplyDeleteI did know about this nifty little trick and it is really great when you have kids because then their straw does not land up on the floor.
ReplyDeleteThanks for always looking for interesting things to educate us with sweet Ally!!!
Isn't that clever??! I did not know that, although I don't drink canned drinks very often. I have seen Craft Card magazines suggest using the ring pull as a sort of Buckle with ribbons in a card as a way to make a sort of Card Belt! I've never dome it but I like the idea. I also feel sure that I could make some sort of musical instrument out of them if I gathered enough of them... hmmm...
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