Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 28, 2024

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    Homerville Premium Member 4 months ago

    Gene J Jones is a true plugger. How many has he had published. Has to be the #1 leader.

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    contralto2b  4 months ago

    Hey! We have some of those in our pantry!

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    juicebruce  4 months ago

    I have used Channel Locks on lids that tight ;-)

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    bdpoltergeist Premium Member 4 months ago

    pickled peaches… hmm, interesting

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    jhpeanut  4 months ago

    Having come from a heavily populated Amish, Mennonite, and Brethren area, I have never heard of Pickled Peaches. My great-grandmother’s canned peaches were the BEST.

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    Ichabod Ferguson  4 months ago

    Thou shalt not grunt like beast. That is the law.

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    david_42  4 months ago

    All you have to do is invert the jar and tap it lightly on the counter. That compresses the seal and makes opening easy.

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    kaycstamper  4 months ago

    Use a jar opener, it’s what we do at our age.

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    ctolson  4 months ago

    I always remember P-T, Push-down and Twist. If that doesn’t do it, a few seconds under running hot water usually does the trick. Last resort is twist a butter knife under the lid edge and the jar.

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    flemmingo  4 months ago

    This Plugger had the hardest time opening a jar of sweet gherkins. I think it was a Plugger proof jar?

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    ms-ss  4 months ago

    Rick McKee is a plugger himself. Note the @aol email address.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  4 months ago

    Most pluggers prefer the pickled cucumbers.

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    KEA  4 months ago

    Pickled Peaches?!?

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    SofaKing  4 months ago

    All grunt jobs are staffed by Pluggers.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 4 months ago

    I prefer umeboshi to pickled peaches.

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    V. STEELE  4 months ago

    • arthritis can be a big pain in the… hands. Go electric opener

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    Strawberry King  4 months ago

    It’s always a jar pickled something that’s tough to open.

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    eddi-TBH  4 months ago

    Pickled peaches? OK, I just hadn’t heard of them until now.

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    eddi-TBH  4 months ago

    Just a tap with your chainsaw on the lid will break the seal.

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    mistercatworks  4 months ago

    This is how you bite your tongue when the lid suddenly comes loose.

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    kdikeda  4 months ago

    I had this very same problem with a jar of pickle relish earlier today. Took forever but I got it.

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    mafastore  4 months ago

    My problem is that my hands are too small for larger sized jars – such as ones with canning jar sized tops. My hands don’t reach enough around these larger sized tops .

    We also have one of those V shaped gadgets, but it tends not to work. Sometimes hot water works. Sometimes I hit the tools in the basement to find a wrench which opens large enough. Mostly I give in and call my husband – whose hands are not that much larger than mine and has less strength generally than I do (due to medications he takes).

    Decades ago I was somewhere a group was cooking. Another woman had tried to open a jar and it broke and CUT her hands. In fear of same happening to me I walked around sort of trying to open the jar and saying things like “It is not fair that it is so much easier for guys to be stronger and it is so much easier for them to open things than for women.” One of the guys helped me and neither of us was injured in opening the jar.

    (This is long before I knew my husband.)

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