Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.

  buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged

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  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the US, your state’s department of weights and measures might care. They’re the ones who verify grocery store scales, taxi cab fare meters, gas pumps… they exist to make sure you’re not getting ripped off. If you’re in a blue state they care, in a red state ymmv.

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I live in Texas and the State Dept of Agriculture takes this kind of stuff very seriously. You have to report it though, which might be the other commenter’s issue

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.

    Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.

    Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)

    Everything else is ounces or gallons, I’m sure someone will ‘umm actually’ me…but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.

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    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      America: fuck metric, unless you’re talking soda or bullets

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      • dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        …science and drugs

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      • protist@retrofed.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I know it’s a funny joke, but we actually use metric quite a bit, especially for volume

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    • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.

      I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)

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      • hraegsvelmir@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Then again, I never saw a 6 pack of large bottles of coke until I came to Norway, where every grocery store seems to sell 6 packs of the 1.5 liter bottles, so Europeans are not exactly without their own Coca Cola habits to support.

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