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Default Sardine cans: when did they go from


Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:03:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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> >
> >"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >> the little key operated openers to the huge pop top openers?
> >>
> >> I miss the key openers! That was one of my favorite parts!!
> >>
> >> John Kuthe...

> >
> >I never opened sardines but some other things like that. Ham? Spam?

>
> Coffee cans too. Those key opening cans disappeared some 50 years
> ago.
> http://preservationinpink.wordpress....ap-coffee-can/
> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=VINTAGE+COFFEE+CAN


I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
replaced with the flip tops...