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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums2 liter bottles of soda and a half gallon of milk, why
do we use metric for one liquid and English for the other?
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trof
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NV Whino
(20,886 posts)rox63
(9,464 posts)because it would spoil. Soda has a much longer shelf-life, and can be shipped internationally.
Pryderi
(6,772 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)My regular drunks always ordered half pints and pints. The tourists always ordered litres. They even said it like that. Not "liters". I could hear them lousy tourists putting that r in front of that e just to fuck with me.
But the REALLY weird one was the Canadians coming in all lobstery burnt red and moaning in pain from the sunburn and asking for 200 cigarettes. WTF? I ain't counting out 200 cigs for you, you crispy Canuck! Huh? Oh, that's a carton. Why dintcha just say that?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Canada's damn near all metric, but they know what you mean when you order a pint of draft.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)they can measure it however they want as long as they keep shipping me that La Fin Du Monde...
and at 9%ABV it's not long before I can't understand numbers anyway...
hack89
(39,171 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)It's simple, really.