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   I'm sure they don't make them anymore; those little tin cans of frozen, concentrated fruit juice. They use paper now, I'll bet. But I still remember those little cans. A can that size went a long way and I'm guessing that the thickness of the sheet metal used for cans in general was standardized, so that meant that these little ones were sturdier than the average sized ones. Even the seam running up the side looked bigger and tougher. At least to me.
   Everybody's parents used the empties quite a lot because they were about the correct size for their younger children to drink out of. A twelve-ounce can would be too large. 
I remember drinking milk and fruit juice out of them too, but the memory that first comes to mind deals with how my mom found them convenient. She used to supply me with one filled up with beer and I can recall happily walking around the living room at age four in Louisville sipping my hoppy, soapy brew. I think she might have done it to calm me down and stop my endless chinwag.
    Some will say that drugging a child in this way is to stray from the path of goodness, but as far as crimes go this seems small potatoes to me.