Vaguely remember them

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think they opened sardine cans

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  • em2@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They were also on canned corned beef. Image

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gotta be it!

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• Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We still use them here in Canada for stuff like canned ham and Klik luncheon meat.

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  • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The technology exists to make pull tabs on cans, so why do they do this?

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    • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not sure, cost probably.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you vaguely remember these because you’re too old or because you’re not old enough?

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• ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spam and Corned Beef! Yum!

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like I’ve seen these once, maybe twice, in the last decade. Maybe not these exact openers but something very similar.

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• Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember the tin breaking and having to get pliers to finish opening the can and slicing my finger open because it’s like a razor blade.

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• em2@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These work perfectly to open bathroom doors. The kind with a round button you push in order to lock it. Sometimes people would open the door all the way when leaving the bathroom so the button would be pressed in and causing the handle to be locked. Then sometimes the wind slammed the door shut… well, time to go get “the key”.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Saw thumbnail, assumed they were the little screwdriver like things you use (in the US) when your sibling locks the door to your room. But no, I haven’t seen these in a while because I am not a cartoon mouse tempting a cartoon cat towards a traumatic brain injury.

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve only encountered cans with those a few times, and I just used a can opener on them.

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• houndeyes@toast.ooo ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skate keys?

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  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tin can openers, for cans that had a tab with a tear away strip.

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• Pat@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried using that once, to open a can of corned beef. Gave up and just cut it open with a tin opener.

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