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People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by ediculous@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Not one can without a pull tab.

[–] vladmech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 points 1 year 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 points 1 year 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 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] vladmech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hah yeah that feels right...