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Has the 12 ounce drink can seen any technological innovation in the last 10 years? Okay, wider mouths, taller cans, keg-shapes, etc. Not good enough. We need a new design that will help with the following areas:
I should be able to remove such a can from its six-pack with one hand after there are
less than four cans remaining. Currently, this is hard to do, especially if the cans are situated in a crowded refrigerator.
I should not have to screw around with the plastic loop thingies, the only piece of waste, aside from mylar balloons, that really chaps this non-environmentalist's ass.
I should be able to replace empties or non-empties into their original six-packian configuration.
I envision some sort of folds in the skin of the can that will allow it to snap together with its brethren, yet slide apart easily. How you might transport such a collection is another question.
Or, we could abolish the six-pack all together, in favor of 12 pack cardboard boxes and larger.
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In Canada, at least, we've had six-packs of bottles for quite a while now. The cardboard boxes eliminate almost all of the problems described above. I love the snap-together can idea, though, as cans still cool down a lot faster than bottles and as a result are still quite useful. |
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Two other major advantages to cans are their stackability, and their tendancy to dent, rather than crack. |
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Possibly add a handle (I've never worked out a way to easily carry those damn plastic thingies) |
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No reason not to use cardboard things for six packs...Coors <Canoe beer. Bleah> has done this for a long time, and Guinness <Yay!> comes in four and eight packs like this. |
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I don't see what the problem is. Just do what I do: open all six cans at once, leaving them in the plastic holder, guzzle conehead style, repeat as needed. |
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That's called 'quaffing'. Just like drinking, but you spill more. |
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Cans used to be made of steel, but it was cheaper to make them out of aluminum; you can also recycle aluminum easier. |
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The single best improvement for six-packs is to make them a seven-pack at the six-pack price, yes? |
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There's just something about canned beer that, I don't know, I feel like I'm drinking Old Milwaukee or something. Bottles seem cooler. You guys aren't drinking Pabst or something, are you? |
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We're drinking pretty much anything we can get our hands on. |
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I was hoping this would improve the contents of whatever we can get our hands on. |
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// In Canada, at least, we've had six-packs of bottles for quite a while now. The cardboard boxes eliminate almost all of the problems described above. // |
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same for the u.s. but how about six packs of cans in similar cardboard carriers? or a box half the size of one used for a 12-pack? |
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Wow - 14 years ago and now a *six-pack* is a sexy man's
abdomen! |
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Sure it is - yours is just made out of liter bottles. |
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