Finally, I Can Open My Nachos In Style!

[cb123]

I found these Italian shears, I think they could be early twentieth century - not entirely sure, though, but really nicely done and quite decorative.

 

[suckolux]

Wow, clipping in style! Landlady had some smaller ones looked like that, she traveled a LOT! She said they were for clipping grapes! But these do look bigger. Very nice.

 

[super-sweeper]

THAT'S what those are for!? We've had this ancient pair of 'grape clippers' for years, we've always thought they were toenail clippers! We used them on the dog for years! 

 

[cb123]

Thanks, they do rather look like a lawn implement. The shears are ten 1/2 inches and have a pretty good weight to them, also.

 

[cb123]

Yeah Alex, they look really good for digging out ingrown toenails and picking teeth, in just that order! Way down south, we like to call this kind of medicine " A little in home Private Practice " or much rather malpractice, but sadly now, that's about all the doctoring we can afford.

   

 

[super-sweeper]

LOL, maybe my Handi-Butler dental-drill kit would be a hit in the South! 

 

[suckolux]

Oh you guys!

 

[cb123]

Alex, don't you know KIRBY just about has a tool for everything under the sun! I don't know why Nobel hasn't issued James Kirby an honorary peace prize, yet!

   

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Well thank GOD you're no longer opening your nachos

with common, ordinary scissors! only the very best will do.
I'm surprised Kirby doesn't make a 'nacho-butler',, or snack-emtor. Maybe THAT'S a new and exciting feature on the new introduction... made with metal, of course.

(I'm just waiting for the comments.) Do I bash??? I most certainly do not.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

And, just for the very fw who 'got that'

thanks . Because everyone knows, I know how to serve snacks...

 

[super-sweeper]

John, you got some ideas in my head rolling, I should make the 'Nacho-Butler' a thing, now! I'm not saying any of the ideas, just in case I do! 

 

[crevicetool]

Those are poultry shears...

They are still around, but were a big deal back in the day and often sold with and matched one's table cutlery/flatware.

 

[suckolux]

Very easily could be!

 

[danemodsandy]

Crevicetool is Right:

Those are poultry shears; they were used for disjointing roast fowl of all types - chicken, duck, goose, etc.

When I was in the housewares biz and taught cooking (several eons ago), I would sell a pair of these occasionally. The customer was always someone elderly, who had grown up with them.

They are very powerful and will go through the joints on a bird with ease.

 

[marks_here]

And also some people too! OOOOOPPSS. He hehaha

 

[cb123]

MAN! And I wrongly thought they were for opening up ribcages down at the county morgue. How could I be so wrong?!

 


I agree, with that angry looking serrated blade, it pretty much can cut thru bone, cartilage, sinew, carbon steel! It's gotta be poultry shears.    

 

[super-sweeper]

....wonder if it works on Dysons......MUHAHAHAHA! 


 


No, even I wouldn't do that! Calem, though....

 

[cb123]

......YES I WOULD, YES INDEED!!!

 

[tolivac]

Hunting supply catalogs shell game breakdown shears like those.And yes,versions were used in autopys-a bit larger!!