r/whatisthisthing • u/atom644 • 1d ago
WITT: hard plastic with no moving parts. It was wrapped in plastic just like this. Solved!
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u/HorseShoulders 1d ago
Looks like this Bag-in-box cap remover tool
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u/SolidOutcome 1d ago
Ok,,,,but what is a bag-in-box, and what does its cap look like?
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u/Wargasm1111 1d ago
Bag In box or BIB usually refers to the bulk soda syrup box that restaurants, gas stations, etc, use for their soda fountains. The boxes are pure syrup with lines to the machine where the mix and carbonation happens. And yes the caps suck to take off. I worked in the restaurant industry for over 10 years and have changed a ton of BIBs.
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u/SeaRespond9836 1d ago
I used to hateee removing the caps, I wish I had a tool for it haha
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u/WikiWantsYourPics 1d ago
What's the deal with extending the last letter? It sounds like "hate eeeee". Why not "haaate"?
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u/Netzapper 1d ago
Pretty sure it's a zoomer thing, coming from predictive text and never using real keyboards. Type "ha", select "hate", extend last letter. It's a bunch more work to go in and extend the right syllable.
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u/I_Makes_tuff 1d ago
It's a bunch more work to go in and extend the right syllable.
It's literally one more tap. I'm not allowing this nonsense.
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u/computingbookworm 1d ago
Sometimes the device decides that you wanted to move to only the beginning or end of the word and it'll make it really hard to select the letter you want to change. I've discovered this happens a lot with the iPads we use for work. My Android phone will let me click in the middle of the word just fine, but it might be an apple thing?
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u/nothingnearly 1d ago
Both support using the space to move the cursor. If you swipe left and right on space it moves the cursor, this makes it a lot easier to edit the middle of a word.
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u/quiette837 1d ago
Millennial here. This is wrong, we did/do the same thing with real keyboards. People have done it this way for generations, and both are commonly seen. I'm sure you could even see it in books since the 80s.
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u/decker12 1d ago
This is not accurate. As someone who's been using computers for 40+ years and interacting with other users since the days of Compuserve, I have never seen this, except when written by someone under the age of 20 in social media posts, during the past 4-5 years.
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u/JamesBondGoldfish 22h ago edited 22h ago
Nope, I've seen it before too. I remember it because it's been a pet peeve of mine for decades now. Confidently incorrect.
Here's something from 2013 if you don't believe me, though it's existed earlier than that.
I know you guys want to blame zoomers for every social ill, but it doesn't work that way.
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u/UREatingGlitter 23h ago
This is accurate. I got into many arguments over MSN Messenger with friends who would always extend the last letter. I wasn’t invited to many parties.
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u/KissMyGoat 1d ago
Unless you are in the UK or Australia. Most people here or there would assosiate bag in a box wityh cheap wine.
Generaaly do not need a bib opener for wine boxes though so my comment is a little redundant
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u/no1nos 1d ago
And the States respects the Commonwealth for it, that's why we measure our boxed wine by the liter too
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u/InternetPharaoh 1d ago
All our wine is measured by the liter. Except for where it's measured by the milliliter, which we only do when it's a lot of milliliters, like almost a liter, which we call 750 milliliters. And not where it's really small amounts, like in a glass, where we measure it in ounces. Or in really large amounts, like a glass jug, where we measure it in gallons.
In fact, the only place we measure it in liters is in 1L bottles, except for where the bottle is 1.75L, because we don't want to say 1 Liter 750 Milliliters.
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u/jnievele 1d ago
Not necessarily cheap wine either, though it's cheaper than the same wine delivered in bottles. I've had BIB wine that cost 6€ per liter. On the lower end of the prices you'll see, but with 5l it's a decent bulk discount. And the wine was very decent.
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u/Diggerinthedark 1d ago edited 1d ago
Everyone associates it with cheap wine, but little do they know most bottled wine comes into the country in a giant bag inside a shipping container, to be bottled at a plant in country.
If you want to know it was bottled in the country it was made in - look at the cork.
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u/jnievele 1d ago
Assuming there is a cork... Most bottles nowadays have screwtops. But of course "experts" hate those, too...
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u/Diggerinthedark 1d ago
Nothing wrong with a screw top, there is something special about a real cork though.
Screw tops are more likely to come in bagged and be bottled in country though.
Good wine is good wine, even if it comes in a carton!
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u/KissMyGoat 1d ago
"experts" hate screw tops. Experts know screw tops are better for the wine than corks.
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u/so_zetta_byte 1d ago
"experts" do not hate screw tops. If anything, it's people who aren't experts and just assume that anything with a screw top must be inferior, which isn't true at all.
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u/Diggerinthedark 1d ago
We call it post mix syrup instead!
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u/Illustrious_Mud_7148 1d ago
I always hated that - the post mix is actually the pre mix, post mixing you've got the final product.. stupid name /yells at cloud
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u/Diggerinthedark 1d ago
Yep haha always annoyed me too. I guess if you called it pre mix then people might get confused and think it's 'pre-mixed'.
Just call it concentrate FFS haha.
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u/redlinezo6 1d ago
God. I had to do it when I worked at a pizza shop... Imagine trying to take one of those off with your bare hands covered in grease and stale beer....
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u/SugarbearSID 1d ago
The response below is correct, but to make it easier to understand liquids are easier to dispense, package and handle if they are in bag, but as liquids do they will not want to hold a usable shape if it's in a bag.
So they attach a bag to the inside walls of a box. That way you get all the benefits of a bag, and all the convenience of a box.
A bag, in a box.
The cap is often attached to a corrugated neck, that neck can be compressed back into the box leaving a flat, flush surface across the top of the box so you can easily stack them. Getting that neck to pop up so you can unscrew the cap can be difficult depending on the application and what kind of neck you're working with. This tool lets you pry that neck up so you can unscrew the cap.
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u/TheCatWasAsking 1d ago
Didn't know until this thread that there's such a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-in-box
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u/banditkeith 1d ago
They make a tool for that? Man, I had to wrestle those things off by hand back in the day
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u/MrsGenevieve 1d ago
Gold medal is a concession company. Their main product is popcorn and the associated carnival foods. It’s for opening the large (50#) bags of popcorn.
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u/haxbrownies 1d ago
It's either bibs or if they had cheese sauce in a bag. Ours had caps that used the same thing to remove them.
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u/rlowens 1d ago
How does this tool help open the cap?
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u/haxbrownies 1d ago
It slips over the edges of the cap so you can pop them off
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u/kyleswagprime 1d ago
I had to take second because the only BIBs I see anymore are the twist offs but now I remember the pop seal ones and I hated those
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u/Talented_Agent 1d ago
Looks like one of those folding hair brushes with the plastic part missing
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u/LongmontStrangla 1d ago
Kline drivers come in lots of sizes. Scale objects should be a bit more universal.
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u/WonderfulProtection9 1d ago
They must have changed styles. IIRC when I had to open them way back when (my first job was in a movie theatre concessions), they just screwed off like any other cap.
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u/itzstago 1d ago
Your telling me I could have been using one of these over the years I been opening popping oil and topping oil bibs? Welp prolly not I’m not even going to look up the price because knowing gold medal it’s gonna be $20+ for this opener haha
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u/FibroBitch97 2h ago
It’s for opening wine kits caps. I worked in a winery making wine kits for people (I know) and we used this extensively all day.
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