"Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:37:26 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm just old enough to remember when pull tabs on soda/beer cans were
>>>> replaced with the flip tops...
>>>
>>> That wasn't that long ago. 1978 or so. IIRC. You'd pull off the tab
>>> and then drop it into the soda for lack of anything better to do with
>>> it. And no, nobody I ever knew ever accidentally swallowed or choked
>>> on one.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> Worse, people would toss the tabs on the beach and you'd cut your foot
>> Flip tabs eliminated that problem.
>
> Remember the pull tab nonsense where people thought if they saved them,
> some sort of miracle would happen? Firemen would take them and then turn
> them in so some cancer patient could get chemo or some such thing.
>
> Okay this one says it was for dialysis.
>
> http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp
>
> I actually heard many versions of that story. Some people I know just
> insisted that I save the tabs for them and that I was being cruel and
> selfish if I wouldn't. They wanted so badly to believe that it was true.
>
> Another food related rumor. If you got a Tootsie Pop wrapper with an
> Indian on it, you could trade it in for a free Pop. I don't know why but
> it seemed pretty hard to get one that had the complete Indian. And
> because of the way they were wrapped, you couldn't tell without
> unwrapping it. The Indian always appeared (when he did) in the area
> where it was wrapped the tightest.

When I was a kid I got a tootsie pop wrapper with the Indian and star on
it, and mailed it in to the company asking if I would get a prize. They
wrote me back saying that this was an urban legend, but they also GAVE ME A
WHOLE BIG BAG OF FREE TOOTSIE POPS! From this experience, I can ascertain
nothing except that Hershey (IIRC) has excellent customer service, Tootsie
Pops must be cheap to produce, and the "urban legend" is actually true at
least sometimes.