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A Vietnam War-era P-38 can opener, with a U.S. penny shown for size comparison.. The P-38 (larger variant known as the P-51) is a small can opener that was issued with canned United States military rations from its introduction in 1942 to the end of canned ration issuance in the 1980s. [1]
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Old beer can showing punches from a churchkey Beer can pop-top display at a Budweiser Brewery. Early metal drink cans had no tabs; they were opened by a can-piercer or churchkey, a device resembling a bottle opener with a sharp point. The can was opened by punching two triangular holes in the lid—a large one for drinking, and a second smaller ...
A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans. Although preservation of food using tin cans had been practiced since at least 1772 in the Netherlands, the first can openers were not patented until 1855 in England and 1858 in the United States. These early ...
A beverage opener (also known as a multi-opener) is a device used to open beverage cans, plastic bottles or glass bottles, which are the three most common beverage containers. [ 1 ] Types
Right-wing media figures, including some on Fox News, quickly called for a boycott of Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis-based company that produces over 100 beer brands, including ...
Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC [5] (/ ˈ æ n h aɪ z ər ˈ b ʊ ʃ / AN-hy-zər BUUSH) is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. [6] Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (), now the world's largest brewing company, [7] [6] [8] [9] which owns multiple global brands, notably Budweiser, Michelob, Stella Artois, and Beck's.
In 1959, while at a picnic with friends and family, Fraze discovered he had left his "church key" can opener at home, forcing him to use a car bumper to open cans of beer. Fraze decided to create an improved beverage opening method that would eliminate the need for a separate device, leading to his creation of the pull-tab opener.