Post #3288638
2026-06-07 20:30 UTC
@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org
Ah, thanks for the WP link! There's this picture at the end, titled "Opening a beer can with a "church key", 1963" and now it seems to me like before the "Ring Pull" cans, no tool-less opening mechanism did exist. People needed to bring their own tooling even for opening beer or soda cans. I wasn't aware of that… my beverage career started with Ring Pull and single-purpose, can-opener-less bottle openers :)
#RingPull #ChurchKey #TIL
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@carpetbomberz@mastodon.online 2026-06-07 22:43
@musevg@23.social @denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org @dryak@mstdn.science @cstross@wandering.shop @aral@mastodon.ar.al @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town I remember as kid growing up the big cans of Hi-C that used to be shelf stable. And those always needed to be opened with the church key. And they would sit open in the fridge for weeks on end until we finished it. Thankfully the galvanized metal could take it. There's an example here at the :19 second mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7a5Bp77EM