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vpilcx | 3 years ago

It's interesting this would pop up, because I was just thinking yesterday about how the holes of cans used to be a different shape. I believe it was mid to late 90's. They switched over to a larger hole.

I was telling my mom and she was telling me that it didn't happen. I was hoping they were going to cover this in the video but no such luck. This did actually happen, right?

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dupsik|3 years ago

I have a memory of this, too. I remember the first soda I encountered with the larger opening being Surge.

All the other sodas I saw at the time had this opening: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/POE_Stay...

Then, not long after Surge, I started seeing the larger opening on everything.

oharapj|3 years ago

Just for reference, it's called the 'wide mouth'. Here's the section of the Wikipedia article that references it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drink_can?useskin=vector#Wide_...

Interestingly, I would have said that narrow mouth cans were available well into the 2000s in Australia. I distinctly remember seeing the first wide mouth cans replacing them. It's possible that because I remember them being introduced that they feel much newer than they are, though.

cycomanic|3 years ago

Yes at least in Germany you used to open cans by a lever and pull a small opening open by ripping a piece of the lid away. That usually left quite sharp edges, which I guess is why they changed the design.

You can see some of the old openings in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaH6q7cZv8Y

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gmac|3 years ago

Same in UK. But I suspect they changed the design primarily to eliminate the litter caused by discarding the ring-pull piece?

aidenn0|3 years ago

Same in the US. Called "pop tops" so if you were ever wondering what Jimmy Buffet cut his heal on in Margaritaville, now you know.

WirelessGigabit|3 years ago

Same in the USA. I still find those old cans when hiking.

homero|3 years ago

Don't think that video is correct

Graziano_M|3 years ago

I remember commercials about the new bigger mouth. One where someone was choking on food and the it was like, "don't you sometimes wish you had a bigger mouth?".

Some quick googling found an old beer commercial [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHXNtb27IY8