if you turn them around they snap off. i have been saving red ones for a breast cancer charity. i remember hearing that those tabs or rings one were used to buy time on a kidney dialysis machine.. maybe some prgram connected with the fact that too much beer damages kidneys--i can';t thienk of the word i a can think of is psoriasis--but i know that's not it.. so maybe some brewery thought of a way to try to help by encouraging people to drink more beer so they could save more tops--oh yes it is Cirrhosis...or somat? psoraisis (sp?) is outside, cirosis (sp) is inside