• 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.