John Cowan replied: Rick McGowan scripsit:
>> Which explains to me why a pint of bitter in England seems quite so >> enormous... well for a small Yank... ;-) >Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a liter of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah, that's just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the Flintstone one is only .47 liters. That's ridiculous. How can a litre be too much? If anything, it is too little. Witness the DECENT-sized steins in use in Bavaria... (of course, I concede that it is only good if one has DECENT beer, and otherwise probably really is too much.) K ================================== 333 Pine Street RR#1 Rosemere, QC Palmerston, ON J7A 1T7 N0G 2P0
