Haven’t had a canned drink since sometime in the 1980’s
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Did you have to use a “church key” to open it? I believe they already had pop tops in the 80s though.
I’d bet not too many here under age 40 have ever heard of a church key.
standard issue.
Go to youtube and look up “Churchkey” instrumental.
If you remember THAT, you’re at least as old as me.
;^)
I’d bet not too many here under age 40 have ever heard of a church key.
There were pull-tab pop-tops in the early '70s - maybe earlier. By the late '70s, the "stay-tab" took over.
IIRC, there is (or was) a craft brewery in the northwest that's using flat-top cans again. Maybe the cans are cheaper without the captive pop-tops. It'd be interesting if it came full-circle.
I remember the Church Key for beer and sodas. Then came the pull tab for beer. Teens loved to have long chains showing how many “beers” they had popped a top on.
Then the soda cans also had the pop top and you could not tell the difference between beer tabs and sodas.
My rememberances...
My uncle would buy beer, pull one out, then strike the end of the steel can with a Church Key several times to “settle” the foam. He then would also add salt to the drink. He and other family members could get falling down puking drunk on THREE 3.2 Oklahoma beers.
1966 Church key used for the Piza-Pop salesman at Chanute AFB.
1968 Church key used in flight crew lunches. When we recovered an aircraft, we would collect the uneaten lunches, church keys and P-38s. I still have a cigar box full of church keys.
1968 first aluminum tops on soda cans and pull tops.
1975 Coors Beer introduces a two hole press tab, till someone cut her finger and sued.
Animal rights people were worried fish were swallowing the flashy pull tabs, and were being killed so the current tab was invented.
I now drink unsweetened tea.