• vladmech@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 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
      7·
      7 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
        7·
        7 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·
        7 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·
      7 months ago

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