Greatest Invention Since Sliced Bread

[Ed Lada]

This could possibly have been the best bottled beer in the world until the craft bear revolution. I had a keg at my wedding in 1996.

I think the original Czech Budweiser is the best but the Urquell is damn fine too. Even the Germans will relutctantly admit that the Czechs brew some of the best beer in the world.

 

[Ventucky Red]

Silly statement. Coors isn’t beer. I’m not sure what is but it sure as hell isn’t beer…….

Long story short, I had some friends in HS who got their hands on some Coors back when it was a novelty. I gave one can to my dad... two sips, and he labeled it "horse piss" as he did Miller, Pabst, Budweiser, and Schaffer.

Rolling Rock, Yeungling, and Schmidt's were okay... but again, we dare not touch his Pilsner.

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

i think they called coors light “speed cylinders” on a SC50 or SC70 on the west coast.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Until this came along

Apparently folks were putting the pull-offs back into the can and subsequently swallowing the tabs so brewers went to the current iteration.

Until this came aglong

 

[ROADKILL666]

Cable ties.

Discussion is over.

Velcro

 

[Snaggletooth]

plastices.....

 

[Fat Point Jack]

Apparently folks were putting the pull-offs back into the can and subsequently swallowing the tabs so brewers went to the current iteration.

We folded the tabs around a shroud on my Hobie 16. If you threw them into the water, the fish would think they are supper.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Apparently folks were putting the pull-offs back into the can and subsequently swallowing the tabs so brewers went to the current iteration.

the pulltabbes werre enddeng up evereywhearre, so to stem pollutione they chaged the desine.

 

[justsomeguy!]

the pulltabbes werre enddeng up evereywhearre, so to stem pollutione they chaged the desine.

That too.
After several reports of people swallowing the removable metal tabs and suffering from injuries, and an increase in littering, Western Digs says the ring tab design was phased out starting in 1975.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Wowe, I realley diddentte thick annyoune carred aboutte the stupide peopel swalloweng them....

 

[justsomeguy!]

Wowe, I realley diddentte thick annyoune carred aboutte the stupide peopel swalloweng them....

Just the corporate lawyers.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Just the corporate lawyers.

Realley? It wase them swalloweng alle the tabbs?

 

[Ventucky Red]

That too.
After several reports of people swallowing the removable metal tabs and suffering from injuries, and an increase in littering, Western Digs says the ring tab design was phased out starting in 1975.

There was an inherent problem in multipart portable consumer packaging: What to do with the sealing mechanism, once so vital and now so worthless (and dangerous), after you had opened the can? Often, it seemed, the answer was to simply chuck it. Another solution was to deposit the pulled tab in the can. While this may have been less environmentally injurious, it was not without its dangers. As an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted, at least seven children over a period of a little over three years had “been treated for complications of ingestion or aspiration of pull tabs from aluminum beverage cans.” One particularly pernicious problem is that aluminum often does not show up on X-rays; hence the appearance, in journals like Pediatric Emergency Care, of such startling articles as: “Swallowed Coke Can Tab: Is it Still Stuck in the Esophagus?”


Indeed, it was at a radiology conference in 1974 that a physician named Lee Rogers—who had inadvertently swallowed a can tab during a basketball game—broached the idea of the can tab hazard to the medical community. And it was this single panel at a medical conference that helped launch a revolution in the design of our aluminum cans. As described in the American Journal of Roentgenology, Rogers’ presentation triggered a media crusade, with more than 400 newspapers picking up the story. (Rogers, the AJR notes, also received negative feedback from the beverage industry, which was not keen on coming up for a costly replacement for an otherwise functional technology.) “Aluminum pull-tabs are now common elements of our environment and inevitable offenders as foreign bodies in the esophagus,” the Journal of Pediatrics sternly noted in 1978, sounding like a Red Scare-era FBI dossier.

 

[gptyk]

Thus explains why kids these days don't understand:

"Blew out my flip flop. Stepped on a pop top."

 

[A3A]

For a short time, the pull tab rings worked in Chicago parking meters.

 

[10thTonner]

That too.
After several reports of people swallowing the removable metal tabs and suffering from injuries, and an increase in littering, Western Digs says the ring tab design was phased out starting in 1975.

One of my first emergency endoscopies involved retrieving such a thing from a guys stomach. Had to dig through a whole serving of egg salad until I found it.

 

[Grizz]

 

[Ed Lada]

One of my first emergency endoscopies involved retrieving such a thing from a guys stomach. Had to dig through a whole serving of egg salad until I found it.

Lucky bastard. When I worked long busy nights in the ER we would eat what and when we could. The trouble with the gastric lavage with the suicide attempts was all that fucking liquid charcoal and then you didn't want to get poisoned from whatever they swallowed. Even with that when I was pearl diving looking for pill fragments, I would occasionally see a tempting chunk of something. Fucking charcoal. Mmmmmmm, warm egg salad.

 

[veni vidi vici]

. 1972 Toyota RV2 Camper

 

[Point Break]

Lucky bastard. When I worked long busy nights in the ER we would eat what and when we could. The trouble with the gastric lavage with the suicide attempts was all that fucking liquid charcoal and then you didn't want to get poisoned from whatever they swallowed. Even with that when I was pearl diving looking for pill fragments, I would occasionally see a tempting chunk of something. Fucking charcoal. Mmmmmmm, warm egg salad.

Nothing like trying to put a Ewald down to bring up whatever is down there. We put down NG’s in the field in some limited circumstances but not that giant rubber monster……