I am in favor of the newer to me, at least, ‘velcro’ closure tops on some dry goods. The dry rice I buy has that type of closure and I reuse those bags for storing other goods.
Safer than using your teeth!
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The old sardine cans and olive oil cans, too. Dad would make sculptures with those containers and their keys.
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I had a chipped bottom tooth a few years ago - don’t know how - but when my dentist saw it, she said, “what did you do, open a beer bottle?”
Apparently she’s done resulting repairs.
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Everyone knows you can use a belt buckle to open a beer bottle.
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The cans of Kirkland (Costco) diced tomatoes have pull-tabs.
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Who wears belts anymore?
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I just bought a new belt last week. The old one tore to pieces as I was swapping it out, right in the store’s parking lot.
Well, guys. But wome? Actual functioning bets with real buckles? I don’t even see them in women’s stores. I have old ones that are very nice, but I doubt that even a hole punch would get one to fit me now.
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Lucky you, Emglow!
The ancestor of your lunch used to sold in our dorm basement in warming machines that looked —and worked — like old cigarette vending machines. Put the coins in (yeah, it was a long time ago) pull the knob and your pitiful little can of Chef Boyardee dinner fell into the bottom trough. On Sundays, we were given breakfast and lunch, but not dinner, so you were on your own …
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I do. Kohl’s has them as does Target.
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I have a number of pants that require a belt, because my hip to waist ratio is high.
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I have a cool little gadget for opening pull tabs. But I don’t like those tabs. And my gadget doesn’t always work.
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Sometimes the pull tabs don’t work either, and you’re stuck with a partially opened lid to pry off. That’s why I keep pliers and screwdrivers in the kitchen Stuff drawer.
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Some cans/brands have gotten pretty good-- Chef Boyardee’s is fine as long as one is not aggressive. Our Brat-Kitty’s Fancy Feast cans (has to be in gravy-- the pate will just not do) are about the best pull tab lids I’ve seen.
Some older folks here may have experienced the old church-key opener expedient method because SOMEONE forgot the can opener. Punching the triangular holes all around the top.
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I remember, long ago this was, refilling the food vending machines in the hospital that I worked at. It wasn’t my regular gig, sometimes I had to be the substitute for that task. Those huge elongated tins of kippers that barely fit into the slots were a top seller. This was before the institution of sell-by-dates or expired dates on these. I’d use an El Marko (that long ago) to date the items. Who knows how long those snacks sat in the machine.
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I represent that remark!
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it was the coffee cans with the side roll-up key that did the blood letting . . .
I don’t even bother with the “as designed” opening for the plastic stuff anymore.
I immediately go with the scissors & zip lock bag ‘repackage’
for other ‘clam shell’ type plastic, I have some big-axx tin snips - seems like overkill for a croissant, but heh - no blood!
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