Pop-top/pull-tab/ring-pull

I honestly only remember Coors having that. Bartenders finger might have made that swill taste better. :smiley:

Maybe it was only Coors. That was my preference back in the day, much better than that Budweiser swill, I’ll clue ya!

I remember those pop tabs to be extremely sharp. Like razor blade sharp – which is how I always figured he cut his heel. It was probably sideways, he stepped on it, and sliced his heel open.

I figure that had something to do with getting rid of those tabs.

We weren’t drinking either here in Wisconsin in the 70’s. Purely Milwaukee/Wisconsin beers were still the norm at the time.

I had my first Coors in about '78. Thought it had gone moldy. (still think it tastes moldy).

Didn’t have a Bud until about 1985. Thought it tasted like marshmallows. (and I @#$%ing HATE marshmallows!:mad: )

Exactly!

I saw several people cut themselves walking barefoot on the lakefront on those stupid things! They were sharp as hell!

Among my peer group in West Texas, you were pretty much a Coors man or a Bud man. I was in the Coors camp. They did have Lone Star and Schlitz, but those seemed to be old-man beers. Then there were the cheapies such as Rolling Rock and Stroh’s, but those were for college students, and I was finally introduced to them once I entered college. No, the two biggies were Coors and Budweiser. But the more I think of it, yeah, the two-hole punch tabs may have been Coors alone.

EDIT: Was Rolling Rock available in West Texas at that time, or am I remembering it from somewhere else? Another college cheapie I do remember was … Carling? Carling Black label? Something like that. It may even have been from Canada but dirt cheap, so we could enjoy a fake ambience of drinking imported beer.

Now all we have to cut our feet on the beach are zebra mussels. I think I’d rather have Pop Tarts.

My mom, bless her heart, continued to use a church key instead of the pop-top, until she quit drinking.

I once met a big guy who had made a chain-mail shirt out of first generation pop-tabs. Purely decorative, of course.

You know there’s nothing stopping you from punching a second hole? Or else ignore the tab completely and make two holes. Either way, your comment makes no sense.

Which part of my zombie post made no sense, Newby? The part where I actually said you can punch a hole in the can?