All of the things millenials are killing (suggest additions inside)

[Mike64]

Most cans don't have two "lids" anymore. They're two piece designs like beer cans. I gave up on my Swing-A-Way openers. I think the geometry changed when the cans went two piece, and they don't work right anymore. I use military openers like these(I have both sizes)...
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"Easy open" cans can fuck off and die. The time you save using a pull tab is made up trying to get the food past the lip they leave, not to mention failures as CD noted. If a can opener is too difficult for someone to use, they should simply starve to death. They have nothing to offer the world, and are using up my oxygen.

Huh, maybe being "old" isn't always a bad thing... my two Swing-A-Ways (one my own, one inherited) were made in the US and still work great. Fwiw, the EZ-DUZ-IT Deluxe is apparently still made in the US, for whatever that's worth, and there are other similar brands made here, too.

As for the easy-open cans, I don't know what to tell ya. I survived the first two-thirds of my life without them quite nicely, but I like 'em, and have actually never had the tab break off on me., (Tabs on soda and beer cans cans have, but I honestly can't remember one on a can of "food" snapping off on me... I guess I've lived a charmed life...) I also never seem to have any real trouble getting the soup out. it helps a lot if you shake the can (of soup) pretty vigorously before you open it, so the liquids and solids get re-mixed thoroughly instead of having the solids stick to the sides and whatnot, and the spoon I'm going to eat the soup with takes care of the minor remains on the sides of the can after a semi-vigorous downward jerk "dumps" most of the contents out pretty thoroughly...

On the other hand, I just double-checked a couple of different cans and yeah, whether turning it over would work would depend on the brand/can. Progresso cans and some cans of tuna have a sort of weird rounded/contoured rim on the bottom that probably wouldn't be openable with a regular can opener, but Campbell's Chunky and their newer Well, Yes! line have normal "lid" bottoms that should open just fine with an opener... And most of the cans of tomatoes and vegs I just eyeballed when I checked the soup cans don't have easy-open lids at all...

 

[lxskllr]

My Swing-A-Ways are all USA made, but they don't open reliably. Maybe the cutter wheel is worn down. They don't bite deep enough in the top of the can. Normal cans don't usually give me problems, but I've had several tabs break opening herring. You also have to be really careful taking the top off. When you get to the end you have to gently rock it till it comes loose. Otherwise, it snaps off and flicks herring juice on you, and you spend the rest of the day smelling like a whorehouse :^S

 

[Mike64]

Stuff like tinned fish in that sort of long, flat "can" have had pull tabs for a lo-o-ong time, haven't they? (I.e., you can't really blame that on millenials..)

As for the Swing-A-Ways... sometime when you have nothing better to do, you could try giving the cutting wheel a good scrub with a piece of steel wool or something similar. At one point I was having some trouble with mine too and it turned out that even though I thought I'd been fairly careful to keep it (reasonably) clean, apparently enough gunk had built up to throw it off just enough to make it less-than-ideally reliable...

 

[lxskllr]

You probably can't blame the fish tins on millennials, but the old keys were a cooler way of opening cans.

 

[Mike64]

You probably can't blame the fish tins on millennials, but the old keys were a cooler way of opening cans.

Oh, right. I forgot about those. Never really been much of a canned fish eater (apart from tuna), so I'd forgotten about those. Though as I recall, those "keys" sometimes broke off too, didn't they?

 

[lxskllr]

OThough as I recall, those "keys" sometimes broke off too, didn't they?

I never had issues, but they predated my heavy use of them. Maybe I got lucky :shrugs:

 

[Lanyap]

You probably can't blame the fish tins on millennials, but the old keys were a cooler way of opening cans.

Yeah we can. They want everything easy peasy.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I felt this was worth updating.

The stock market. Millennials are killing the stock market.

 

[IronWing]

I’d like to thank the millennials for bringing bacon back from the dead. Modern fufu organic, uncured, no sugar bacon is way better than the crap we had before.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I’d like to thank the millennials for bringing bacon back from the dead. Modern fufu organic, uncurled, no sugar bacon is way better than the crap we had before.

Ohh...I read that as "Tofu" bacon.

 

[brianmanahan]

I’d like to thank the millennials for bringing bacon back from the dead. Modern fufu organic, uncurled, no sugar bacon is way better than the crap we had before.

i'd still only eat it if it was burned to a crisp

 

[IronWing]

i'd still only eat it if it was burned to a crisp

That’s how my mom cooked bacon every time and she’s available again if you’re interested.

 

[sdifox]

That’s how my mom cooked bacon every time and she’s available again if you’re interested.

I don't think that is how your mom jokes work.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't think that is how your mom jokes work.

You know who else burns bacon? MY MOM! P.s. she's single

 

[sdifox]

My Swing-A-Ways are all USA made, but they don't open reliably. Maybe the cutter wheel is worn down. They don't bite deep enough in the top of the can. Normal cans don't usually give me problems, but I've had several tabs break opening herring. You also have to be really careful taking the top off. When you get to the end you have to gently rock it till it comes loose. Otherwise, it snaps off and flicks herring juice on you, and you spend the rest of the day smelling like a whorehouse :^S

you put a plate under a can? Ooh la la!

 

[sdifox]

I’d like to thank the millennials for bringing bacon back from the dead. Modern fufu organic, uncured, no sugar bacon is way better than the crap we had before.

err, if it is not cured, it is not bacon...

 

[Pohemi]

err, if it is not cured, it is not bacon...

Also: work ethic. It hasn't been "killed" per se...I'm not sure millenials in general ever learned it.

 

[sdifox]

like I said, if it is not cured, it is not bacon.

 

[Torn Mind]

Saturated fat and phobia the "experts" try to fan with it are a distraction front for the garbage that is processed and sugar-ridden foods the "food industry" needs to sell to make their stock prices go up.

Vegetable farmers and meat farmers having been duking it out since the beginning.

 

[Mai72]

I don't see any difference.

 

[snoopy7548]

I eat a pound of bacon a day and I feel fine!

 

[JimKiler]

Also: work ethic. It hasn't been "killed" per se...I'm not sure millenials in general ever learned it.

High temperatures, as in everything on a non stick surface? Also grills release carcinogens so pick your poison.