• vladmech@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 months ago

    Do you not buy canned goods? Most everything we get needs an opener: veggies, beans, tomato paste/sauce, basically nothing has a pull tab.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      71·
      11 months ago

      All my cans have pull tabs. I just checked: tomato, chickpeas, beans…

      Not one can without a pull tab.

      • vladmech@lemmy.world
        7·
        11 months ago

        That’s so weird to me; whereabouts are you from? I’m in California and just looked through my cans and maybe 10% of them have pull tabs. Apparently we have the jank can tech here haha

        • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          11 months ago

          I’m in the Netherlands. I thought globalized supply chains would keep our canned produce in sync, but apparently I thought wrong!

          I wonder if it’s some weird patent issue.

          • vladmech@lemmy.world
            6·
            11 months ago

            Big Can Opener is keeping the US down apparently! Really interesting to find these differences, have a great day and a nice time opening your more convenient cans!

          • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
            2·
            11 months ago

            It’s certainly to do with the fact that nobody wants to pay for new machinery when the old ones still work. As things break, I should think that we’ll see more items use pull tabs. FWIW Europe is way ahead of North America on this.

        • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
          3·
          11 months ago

          Having to use a can opener is really a North American thing. The rest of the world moved past that long ago.