• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    33·
    11 months ago

    I haven’t seen a can that needs an opener in decades. I don’t even think I have an opener.

    • vladmech@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      Do you not buy canned goods? Most everything we get needs an opener: veggies, beans, tomato paste/sauce, basically nothing has a pull tab.

      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        71·
        11 months ago

        All my cans have pull tabs. I just checked: tomato, chickpeas, beans…

        Not one can without a pull tab.

        • vladmech@lemmy.world
          8·
          11 months ago

          That’s so weird to me; whereabouts are you from? I’m in California and just looked through my cans and maybe 10% of them have pull tabs. Apparently we have the jank can tech here haha

          • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            7·
            11 months ago

            I’m in the Netherlands. I thought globalized supply chains would keep our canned produce in sync, but apparently I thought wrong!

            I wonder if it’s some weird patent issue.

            • vladmech@lemmy.world
              7·
              11 months ago

              Big Can Opener is keeping the US down apparently! Really interesting to find these differences, have a great day and a nice time opening your more convenient cans!

            • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
              2·
              11 months ago

              It’s certainly to do with the fact that nobody wants to pay for new machinery when the old ones still work. As things break, I should think that we’ll see more items use pull tabs. FWIW Europe is way ahead of North America on this.

          • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
            3·
            11 months ago

            Having to use a can opener is really a North American thing. The rest of the world moved past that long ago.