I wonder whether Stephen is deliberately posting incorrect nonsense in an
attempt to goad me into posting?
Yes. Pitchers are in common use in the UK. The prescribed sizes of "CE" marked
pitchers are 2, 4, 8 & 16 pints. The prescribed sizes of "Crown Stamped"
pitchers are 2 & 4 pints.
So, Stephen. Which is it? Are you claiming to have seen non-prescribed measures
in use, or are you just wrong?
--- On Mon, 30/3/09, Stephen Humphreys <barkatf...@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Stephen Humphreys <barkatf...@hotmail.com>
Subject: [USMA:44224] Re: the pub--ground zero for the metric system?
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Date: Monday, 30 March, 2009, 9:21 AM
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Pitchers are still very popular in the UK - especially if there is a rugby or
football match on.
They're multiples of pints - and I *think* the most popular pitcher size is 3
pints.
(I put in *think* just in case there is scope for some pedantry surrounding
what I have said that can be used to pretend I'm wrong on a technicality of
grammar or preciseness)
Personally I don't like the idea - the drink warms up far too fast and it just
makes you drink faster. By half time the big screen becomes a blur!!! ;-)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:28:25 -0700
From: jeremiahmacgre...@rocketmail.com
Subject: [USMA:44220] Re: the pub--ground zero for the metric system?
To: usma@colostate.edu
CC: usma@colostate.edu
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I'll bet nobody knew how much the pitcher held or even cared.
Jerry
From: Scott Hudnall <usmetric...@gmail.com>
To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu>
Cc: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 6:42:05 PM
Subject: [USMA:44215] Re: the pub--ground zero for the metric system?
I must have been drinking with alcoholics during my pub-crawling days. We
always ordered beer by the pitcher ;-)
On 2009-03 -28, at 18:50 , Paul Trusten wrote:
Pubs and taverns are bastions of freedom. The American Revolution was hatched
in the Buckman and Monroe Taverns of Lexington, Massachusetts, scarcely 3
kilometers from where I grew up. So, I guess you could say that the pint is
symbol of freedom's ferment (grin). But, I fear that this same obsession with
the standard serving size of a brewsky will also befall us Yanks, as it has in
other countries. That won't be the end of it on this side of the pond, though.
In the U.S., there will be all kinds of requests for exemptions from
metrication and all kinds of fears that metrication will take over in areas in
which it may not belong. Upon the announcement of the EU decision on
supplemental indications, we saw headlines about "British can keep their pints
(of alcoholic beverage poured in pubs)," as if this measure was the shibboleth
of metrication in Europe.
During the deliberations of a future U.S. Metric Board, these very
psychological issues have got to be talked out. The measurement of
goodsserved has to be clarified, so we won't have more customary-unit
martyrdom. However, the U.S. pint is smaller than a half liter, and, as Pat
suggests, there could be lobbying by the American brewing industry to keep it
as a serving size. Does metrication belong in the pub, though? Can't bar
patrons request a size that it outside of legal metrology but agreed upon in
the drinkers' world? I would hate to see a Liliput-Blefuscu war break out over
quaffing a few.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122
Midland, Texas 79707-2872 US
+1(432)528-7724
trus...@grandecom.net
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