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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by RankingMember on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:46AM (#9197365)
"Yeah I'll have a quart of Coke" certainly sounds weird.

It is strange now that I think about it that we have imperial measurements for milk but metric measurements for sugary drinks/beer.

Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by vonmoltke on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:01AM (#9197472)
Beer and soda bottled or canned for individual servings still use imperial units (12oz/16oz/20oz). Oddly, water bottled for such has mostly moved over to metric. Keg beer also still uses imperial.
Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by Sami_Lehtinen on Friday March 13, 2015 @12:23PM (#9197979)
In Finland you can always order 0,568 liter beer. (Imperial pint) Or traditional large beer which is 0,5 liter or euro beer which is 0,4 liter. You decide.
Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by RandallBrown on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:56AM (#9197433)
I usually buy/order sugary drinks and beer by the ounce or pint.

Other than 1 and 2 liter bottles of pop, I can't really think of any time I would buy pop or beer using the metric system.

Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by vidarh on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:02PM (#9203277)
Cans of soda are most commonly 330ml.
Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by RandallBrown on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @11:02AM (#9225968)
In the US, they're mostly 12 ounces.