Memory lane -senior citizens?

Question

do you remember the steel pop cans

Answer 1

Yes, I remember. Most of them are collectibles now.

http://www.collectiblesodacans.com/

Answer 2

yep i remember when vegetables came in them too..got food poisioning..was in bed seven days glad they are gone

Answer 3

Yes, you couldn't leave food in them, you'd get food poisioning.

Answer 4

Nope, we always got ours in glass bottles.

Answer 5

Sure - you had to use a "church key" to open them. I remember the first "ring tab" cans also. You could break off the flat "flaps" on the ring tabs and then you could stuff the ring part in parking meters as coins. But you had to always put 2 real coins in last because they had a glass window for the last 2 coins inserted.  Or the other favorite trick was that you could shove popsicle sticks in the coin slot and make the meter "Expire" so somebody might get a parking ticket.  Back to cans - yeah, steel cans were good for target practice (.22 caliber) because when hit they would bounce around. Once aluminum cans arrived it ruined shooting them because a bullet would just pierce it and not even jump because it was so soft/light.  

Answer 6

I remember pop in steel cans and also glass bottles, which you hardly ever see anymore

Answer 7

i say "pop"...but do not remember steel

Answer 8

Yes I remember but we say pop here in Indiana I thought a soda like ice cream soda not a pop that was a while back I found the difference. Its all good.

Answer 9

I remember both pop and beer can. They were being phased out about the time I started enjoying the "forbidden fruit" of beer. I am guessing they were all gone by about 1970. It was a short time that I had a church key. Used to punch both sides of the can for better "flow".

Later used the ame trick with a P38 can opener when a buddy showed me that beer went down more like draft when you slit the back side away from the pop top with the P38.

Yeah, I'm from Illinois and we say "Pop" Now I am more likely to say " Barley Pop"

Answer 10

We Ohio people call it pop ! I can't recall the whole can as aseel, but the cap on top the glass bottle - yes ! !  We needed a bottle opener (church key) to open them . . .Hey, this was not so long age, was it ?

Answer 11

Ahh...No...sorry,Can't say as I do... you must be from the mid west, as for the word, Pop...It is Soda here.

Answer 12

Yes

Answer 13

Needed a bottle opener that put those triangular openings in the top 'cause pop-tops hadn't been invented yet?  Was that them?  I don't recall ever realizing (or needing to realize even) that they were steel cans though, they were just cans.  Didn't last too long before aluminum became popular.

Answer 14

yes I remember them ,as a teenager,  crushing one with your hands used to be a demonstration of strength to show someone how tough you were or to impress the girls..

when the aluminum ones came out and even a girl could mangle one of them . It left teenage boys no way to intimidate or gain respect for their physical prowess, therefore they had to start carrying guns

  I think in the interest of public safety we should petition for the return of steel pop/beer cans.

Answer 15

Sure do. You didn't crush them like you do the aluminum ones!

Answer 16

When was a kid we called them soft drinks, then soda.

Answer 17

Of course. Beer cans as well. Schlitz was the first to use them, had to have a "church key" to open them.

Answer 18

No, the transition from glass to plastic and aluminum seemed to be instantaneous.