Because nothing screams romance more than loud banging of metal before you get to the beans. The couple that opens canned food together stays together, I guess? Or gets hearing loss from all that clanging. 😆

Totally makes sense in some weird historic way. Early cans needed serious muscle to get into—talk about portion control, amirite? Then the 1858 can opener changed the game. Now I'm on the lookout for these opener antiques, they're super cool and a neat piece of history!

lol imagine the first guy who got a can but no way to open it... guess that's one way to diet!

Actually, the first cans were super thick, we're talking like heavier than a smartphone thick. Early canning was used for military rations, hence durability > convenience. By the time every household wanted canned foods, thinner cans and the opener came about. Necessity breeds invention and all that jazz!

Romantic dinner with a side of tin shavings, nothing says 'I love you' like potential metal ingestion 💍 But really, that just adds a whole new level of effort to meal prep.

Isn't it wild that a can could sit on a shelf for years b4 someone thought ‘hey, maybe we should make this easier to open?' 😆 I'd have been that guy trying to invent the can opener on day one. Can't stand inefficiency.

Crazy to think about how tech changes over time, right? From whacking cans open to one-click online orders for gourmet food these days. We've gone from hammers to smartphones, yet I bet opening cans was JUST as annoying then as forgetting my phone before a meal delivery arrives lol.

Haha yeah, ppl back then were like 'preservation breakthrough, let's just seal this food forever' without a plan to actually eat it 😂😂 Guess they assumed future tech would solve the can problem. Spoiler: it took half a century!