Recently we got take out from a Burger place and my son in law who is only 27 years old and from Europe had never seen a church key can opener like we have here in Santa Barbara before so he punctured the caps on the orange crush for us as he removed the tops from the glass bottles. I asked him about this and he had never seen the "church key" bottle opener before. So, I realized this was before his time which makes sense because "Pop tops" started in the 1970s so since he wasn't born until the 1990s he wouldn't have known about any of this. But, this house has been in the family since the 1970s so it still has one or more church key and bottle top openers that are a combo and the bottle top part of them could still be used all these years later. However, being 72 I remember ONLY being able to open a can of pop or any drinking liquid with a church key during the 1950s and 1960s. So, for at least 20 or more years of my life the only way you opened a can of any drinking liquid was with a church key or you used a nail or a hammer claw or something like this back then because otherwise you couldn't get to the liquid inside the can.
PS the orange crush was then poured over vanilla ice cream which then tastes like a 50-50 ice cream bar or sometimes known as a "dreamcicle" float.
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