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by LambdaComplex 1737 days ago
> toothpaste tubes used to be metal in the 60s and you were supposed to punch a hole on the front of it with the back of the cover cap

I'm definitely too young to remember anything from the 1960s, but you can still buy tomato paste in tubes like that. Neat.

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Anchovy paste too.
Many medicines have the same tube style.