The floss I buy comes in a 50 m length and I see bottled water in 500
mL, 1 L, and 1.5 L sizes. However, US customary sizes are still
widely available.
- Andrew Winn
On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:36 AM, "Stephen Davis" <stevo.da...@btinternet.com
> wrote:
Sorry to refer to the UK again (its just that the UK is in my sphere
of experience) but, in the last few years, certain US imports,
particularly deoderants, are coming into UK ahops with floz readings
on the boxes and cannisters..
I'm not sure if this is legal or not, but I would strongly suspect
"not".
"On the other hand Coke just came out with two new smaller sizes in
our
areas. I think its in anticipation of our wonderful governors proposal
to tax sugary soft drinks by the oz. (gee I wonder how they are
going to
compute that on a 2 L bottle). The new sizes are 12 oz plastic bottles
(cans are hard to reseal) and a new 8 oz can. O well."
There just seems to be a ridiculous mix of units here. The
Listerene kids mouth rinse are in metric units (albeit with
customary units in brackets) but they appear to sell Coke in cans by
the fluid ounce.. Just a thought....would anybody care all that
much over there if a can of Coke was in hard metric units only?
Nobody here does (probably because bottles and cans haven't been
measured in floz for decades over here). People just ask for "a can
of Coke", they don't really care about the amount that's in the can.
There are a few exceptions to the all-metric rule in regard to
packaged goods in the UK. 1136ml bottles of milk will have 2 pints
written on them in smaller letters, as will 568ml bottles (1 pint).
Very occasionally, you will see 568ml cans of lager with "Pint Can"
written on it. These are very much the exception to the rule
though, and they MUST have their metric equivalents written in a
larger font.
Are there any signs that metric, particularly with food and drink,
is becoming more prominent in the US?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Ressel" <hres...@dot.state.ny.us
>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:36 PM
Subject: [USMA:46885] The Good the Bad
Listerine fluoride kids mouth rinse 500 ml size with instructions in
metric first and English in parentheses 10 ml does (two tablespoons).
Also the storage temps. were in Celsius followed by Fahrenheit in
parentheses.
On the other hand Coke just came out with two new smaller sizes in
our
areas. I think its in anticipation of our wonderful governors
proposal
to tax sugary soft drinks by the oz. (gee I wonder how they are
going to
compute that on a 2 L bottle). The new sizes are 12 oz plastic
bottles
(cans are hard to reseal) and a new 8 oz can. O well.
--
"Go for a Metric America"
Howard Ressel
Project Design Engineer, Region 4
(585) 272-3372
