I read somewhere that the can-opener was invented about 150 years after canned food (I think it was Ripley's Believe It Or Not.) I haven't verified this, so I'm not sure that I believe it.-Once I went camping with several cans of devilled ham, but no can-opener. I ended up using a hatchet to open the cans (feeling a little like that cartoon cat in the old Warner Bros. cartoon.)
Once upon a time in 6th grade, I was opening a pull top can of tuna and I sliced my finger open. A couple weeks later the same thing happened to my friend. Actually, I know a lot of people who've hurt themselves on pull top cans. (And no, we're not all clumsy and careless.) Those things are no good in my book.
I think I remember Jack Palance saying something of that sort, too, but he must be wrong.
Pull tops invariably splatter liquid everywhere.
I read somewhere that the can-opener was invented about 150 years after canned food (I think it was Ripley's Believe It Or Not.) I haven't verified this, so I'm not sure that I believe it.-Once I went camping with several cans of devilled ham, but no can-opener. I ended up using a hatchet to open the cans (feeling a little like that cartoon cat in the old Warner Bros. cartoon.)
I've cut myself a couple of times with the pull-tops, I hate those things!
Once upon a time in 6th grade, I was opening a pull top can of tuna and I sliced my finger open. A couple weeks later the same thing happened to my friend. Actually, I know a lot of people who've hurt themselves on pull top cans. (And no, we're not all clumsy and careless.) Those things are no good in my book.