Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for April 05, 2022

It’s a non electric nose picker!

I remember it being used to open a sardine tin.

I’m old enough to remember when there was no expiry date on the can.

They are still around.

Sadly i’m old enough to remember them as well.

Me too….sigh

There were many things in this type of “self opening” cans at the time, but eventually, the current sealed cans were cheaper to produce so everyone had to get a can opener of some kind.

What can it be, Aunty?!

My dad used to eat sardines all the time so I remember that.

Church key: what some people called a can piercer. We just called it a can punch. Commonly had a gripper on one end to open pop bottles and that sharp V shape on the other to pierce pop and beer cans.

Funny story: on our way to Disneyland in 1960, we stopped at a campsite. The gentleman from the adjacent site came over to ask my Mom if she had a can opener. She offered him the crank kind, he said, no, he meant the one for opening drinks. Mom said: “You want a punch then?” The fellow said: “No thanks,” and beat a hasty retreat.

i’m curious why you have to be old enough to remember something that’s still in common use today…

or is that only in japan?

Where does it plug in?

Is it compatible with Alexa?

You GIs may remember what a “John Wayne” is.

It had nothing to do with a “Mae West.”

Neither of these terms apply to movie stars.

wait, you mean they don’t use it anymore?

They are still used for corned beef cans

Ya wine twit – ya still open corn beef with a “key”.

You can have Egg and baconEgg, sausage and baconEgg and spamEgg, bacon and spamEgg, bacon, sausage and spamSpam, bacon, sausage and spamSpam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spamSpam, spam, spam, egg and spamSpam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spamLobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and a fried egg on top and spam

S-O-O-O much easier than these “push-down-and-turn” or “Just pull tab” or any of those other “child-proof” openers. . .

Yeah, me too!

Oh no! More Spam in my inbox.

A very early iteration of the Pull Tab. But have a needle nosed pliers in the drawer as a backup.

Spam key!!

But where did they all go? Maybe they are hanging out with those metal things the cleaners sent back with your shirts?

I remember that there were two ways to use these, winding around the outside of the container, and winding across the top of the container, both had a high probability of breaking before getting it completely done…

Cans of SPAM

SPAM!!!!!!, and canned ham

P3.

And you probably still wear bloomers.

So am I. O.o

I think one of my older brothers stuck one of those in my back when I was younger. They thought I was a wind-up toy.

Me too, and I never liked the Sardines it opened.

Spam too!

You probably still have a skate key too!

Nose hair extractor.

Grampa put them on the fishing poles so we could fish, without hooking each other. The swat hurt less than an embedded hook, just saying.

Coffee cans, Spam cans, sardine tins — those are the ones I remember. And BOY was I glad when they were replaced. Just prying them loose was a pain and then there was the seemingly endless cranking around the coffee can.

Earlier in the episode, there was a bad Hungarian translation sketch. “My hovercraft is full of eels.”

I’m old enough to have used them many times