If a can has something thick or gloppy inside (Campbell's Cream of
Tomato Soup, for example) and has a pull-tab opening top (Campbell's
again), getting the stuff out is a real pain because of the wide rim
that you have to work around while hoping not to cut your rubber spatula
to shreds on the sharp edge.

The lid on cans with pull-tab tops are generally set further down than
regular lids -- far enough that a standard opener won't reach it. For a
while, you could just turn the can over and go in through the (normal)
bottom, but more recently all the cans are deep-drawn and have no
openable bottom.

So the question is, is there a can opener -- top or side entry -- that
is known to remove the top from pop-top cans?

Isaac