Picture this: You're 7 years old and home sick from school. After watching The Price Is Right and sneaking in an episode of Jerry Springer, your mom decides to make you some hot soup for lunch. Or, if you're lucky, SpaghettiOs.
She pulls the can from the cupboard and digs around a drawer until she pulls out this lovely doodad. Hint: It's a can opener.
In your fever haze, you watch with fascination — yes, fascination. You're only 7, remember? — as she twists and turns, and the once impenetrable can is now open!
You enjoy your soup and forget all about the magical can opener until years later, when you're a college freshman living off of black beans. You grab your handy-dandy can opener, connect it to the side of the can, twist the knob until it goes all the way around, then fish the lid out, and voila!
BUT WAIT! What if I told you that you, and your mom, and literally everyone else, had it wrong? What if...there was another way to use a can opener...
I was doing it wrong all my life! 😂 🤦🏽♀️ can opening the right way 😏
What. in. the. actual. fuck?
My coworkers and I were shook to our fucking cores.
SO, I did some research and even major brands demonstrate opening a can on the side and not the top...
...but, some automatic can openers — which are supposed to replicate manual labor, right? — open cans from the top!!
