Why not square cans? I'm not talking about some creepy bra made by a weirdo fashion designer or the outcast can that got picked on for wearing glasses and being a little on the heavy side. What I'm talking about is a can of corn or tomato soup.
The main problem I can see would be opening such a can. The can opener would not be able to make such a tight corner. However I noticed that the cans have been coming with pull tabs lately. Why not put pull tabs on the square cans?
They could fit 1/3 more cans in the same space. This means more efficient warehousing, shipping and retail space. Maybe the cost to change the manufacturing machines are just to expensive? They change other designs all the time but soup just tastes better in a cylinder I guess.
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Maybe in the beginning it was just easier to take a piece of metal and form it into a circle with one seam. A square formed from the same amount of material would be harder to do, and might need more than one seam and then the square cans could not be rolled down the ramp to the truck. (They probably didn't have fork lifts back then so they needed to roll the cans.) But for storage sake your right, they should be square!
ReplyDeleteI really want to roll a can down a truck ramp now. Sounds like fun.
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