Lee Roberts appears to claim that I am making up the fact that fl oz is commonly seen on bar receipts.May I respectfully ask other contributors to raise this if they believe him (and euric)? Otherwise I would rather back out of the insultfest.
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:48:45 -0800 From: k_cooper1...@yahoo.com Subject: [USMA:43417] Re: USC units spread to the UK - and no-one notices! To: usma@colostate.edu Stephen Humphreys appears to claim that soft drink measures are given in imperial on receipts in UK bars. Could I ask other UK contributors to comment upon this statement - not from the measurement aspect, but from the receipt point of view. How many bars have you been in recently where a receipt is given for drinks purchased? It's common on the continent, but is extremely uncommon (in my experience) in the UK (except occasionally when drinks are bought with a meal) It would appear that Stephen is basing his claim that soft drinks are sold in fluid ounces in the UK upon ONE receipt that he once saw that mentioned fluid ounces. I consider this to be highly misleading. In my experience, a far more common scenario is that soft drinks are dispensed from cans or bottles. The measurement marked on these cans & bottles (and often on the price-list too) are in metric measurement. Six of us went for lunch on Thursday to a favourite pub. The drink order was 3 fresh orange & lemonades, 1 diet coke & 2 large soda-water & limes. The waitress brought four unstamped glasses (three half full of lemonade/ice & one with ice only), three 200 ml bottles of fresh orange, a 330ml can of diet coke and two stamped pint glasses which were approximately five sixths full of soda, lime & ice. The bill for the meal (when it arrived) listed the 6 individual main courses & had a price for "drinks" I would suggest that this is a more realistic description of what happens with soft drinks in UK pubs. The imperial measures are not actually used to measure anything, and anything that is actually measured is done so in metric. And, of course, receipts are very rarely given for drinks purchased without a meal. --- On Sat, 3/7/09, Stephen Humphreys <barkatf...@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Stephen Humphreys <barkatf...@hotmail.com> Subject: [USMA:43384] Re: USC units spread to the UK - and no-one notices! To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 1:02 AM Whether that be soft drinks in fl oz (on the receipt) at the bar _________________________________________________________________ 25GB of FREE Online Storage – Find out more http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665320/direct/01/
