I just opened my beer with this and have no idea why we have this in our drawer.
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Speaking of old stuff that has not been around in a wgiwhile le
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Haven't used a bottle opener ever since I got my ring
Mine says "Hamms Beer." No clue how old that thing is.
What's Wings n Things? The wannabee wings n more?
That church key is older than you.
Was just out hiking and found a half-buried Mountain Dew can. The top had engraved explicit instructions on how to negotiate the new-fangled, non pull tab opening. My research puts it at probably 40 years old.
Any olds on here ancient enough to remember the old pull tabs that you used to break in two and then use the tab to shoot the ring across the room?
Any olds on here ancient enough to remember the old pull tabs that you used to break in two and then use the tab to shoot the ring across the room?
I recall those. I also recall stepping on those little *******s as a kid like Jimmy Buffett sings about.
Or the damn ring pulled off the tab and you had to find a can opener.
Or the damn ring pulled off the tab and you had to find a can opener.
Wings N Things >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wings N More
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wgiwhile
This is a pretty good spelling of that noise Will Smith makes at the beginning of Wild Wild West.
Yep. When I was a kid we used to make chains out of them.
I still haven't quite learned how to do that.Wildman15 said:
Haven't used a bottle opener ever since I got my ring
Old checking in.Quote:
Any olds on here ancient enough to remember the old pull tabs that you used to break in two and then use the tab to shoot the ring across the room?
Yup.
Those were ubiquitous in my childhood. Also glass bottles for 2 liter cokes. No plastic crap.
The real olds however are the folks that used to have to punch holes in either side of the top of the can with a can opener to drink their suds.
Those were ubiquitous in my childhood. Also glass bottles for 2 liter cokes. No plastic crap.
The real olds however are the folks that used to have to punch holes in either side of the top of the can with a can opener to drink their suds.
Those were quarts, not 2L.
I think those were 1L. Either way, you had those plus the 10 oz bottles you had to return to get your deposit back.
The quarts existed too but I was talking about the 2 liter bottles....
Yep. The cans were made of steel and the bottles were returnable 16 oz. glass 8-packs. The soft drink aisle was always sticky from someone catching a carton on a bottle cap and pulling a second entire carton onto the floor.snowaggie said:
Any olds on here ancient enough to remember the old pull tabs that you used to break in two and then use the tab to shoot the ring across the room?
2 Liter
Quart
Quart
Gota De Limon said:
The quarts existed too but I was talking about the 2 liter bottles....
Oh, I thought we were talking old... not '80s
Important safety tip: If you put a glass Coke bottle into the freezer in an attempt to chill it, don't forget about it. I earned the privilege of cleaning the freezer several times as a kid because of that.
TexasRebel said:Gota De Limon said:
The quarts existed too but I was talking about the 2 liter bottles....
Oh, I thought we were talking old... not '80s
Damn you like to argue. Those go back to at least the 70's and that's the decade I was talking about.
I still do it with Topo Chico bottles at least once per year.
It's one thing to clean a mess up when a frozen can or plastic bottle bursts, it's quite another when you gotta search the freezer for glass shards while cleaning up the mess.
It's one thing to clean a mess up when a frozen can or plastic bottle bursts, it's quite another when you gotta search the freezer for glass shards while cleaning up the mess.
Just to put a point on it....a quick Google search shows they were made from 1977-1978.
My first thought was wysiwygBeer Baron said:Quote:
wgiwhile
This is a pretty good spelling of that noise Will Smith makes at the beginning of Wild Wild West.
The quarts go back further. First hit for a quart Dr Pepper was 1971.
Coke appears to have introduced plastic in 1978... so the glass 2L was a 1 year thing.
Coke appears to have introduced plastic in 1978... so the glass 2L was a 1 year thing.
As a kid I was not good at opening cans with the stupid pull ring. Breaking off the pull ring with a small hole the soda would dribble out of, yeah I could do that all day long.MouthBQ98 said:
I recall those. I also recall stepping on those little *******s as a kid like Jimmy Buffett sings about.
Or the damn ring pulled off the tab and you had to find a can opener.
also don't put a redstripe in your freezer ice bucket (to get colder even faster) then forget about it and make a glass of ice water... the "crushed ice" feature on the dispenser works just as well with glassGota De Limon said:
I still do it with Topo Chico bottles at least once per year.
It's one thing to clean a mess up when a frozen can or plastic bottle bursts, it's quite another when you gotta search the freezer for glass shards while cleaning up the mess.
I don't dispute any of that.
Yikes!!
Tailhookin Devilpup said:
Important safety tip: If you put a glass Coke bottle into the freezer in an attempt to chill it, don't forget about it. I earned the privilege of cleaning the freezer several times as a kid because of that.
Ice cold, straight outta the freezer Gatorade bottle (back when it was in bottles) set down on a sizzling, El Paso in July hot concrete dugout floor. The explosion was impressive.
Put a bottle of merlot in a freezer too long and you get a glass filled snow cone covered in fermented grape syrup.
Oh look at me. The wine I drink comes from a bottle instead of a cardboard box.TexasRebel said:
Put a bottle of merlot in a freezer too long and you get a glass filled snow cone covered in fermented grape syrup.
The bottles come in a cardboard box.
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