Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …science and drugs

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, they are huge bottles sold individually…great for pouring a reasonable amount for many people.

        Not as great for 1 person drinking it, unless you drink way too much, it will go flat before you can finish it. Never seen a 1.5l bottle before searching it now, that looks like something some one could easily carry with them to have soda all day long!

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Recently shrinkflation hit juices. What used to be 1/2 gal, is now 1.5 L (at least in my grocery).

      I used to buy soda in 2L bottles as the best price, so it was sufficient for a family or a single person several days to a week. The reality is if it’s there I’ll drink it: the sugar rush is addicting. I think a lot of people still do this.

      Now I buy soda in a can, despite the much higher price and packaging, because I’m more successful at moderating myself to a can a day (and it’s usually sugar free so the calories are no longer the problem)

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      2 liters is pretty common for foreign stuff in Estonia. Aka stuff made by coca cola mostly. Price per liter is a bit better than 1.5 liters so it makes more sense for get-togethers.

      Locally made stuff usually doesn’t get past 1.5 liter bottles except for kali (kvass). And juice too, but that’s in tetrapak not bottles.

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