OK, before you flame, I meant 215 mL more if they were going to upgrade
the gallon to four liters. I went back and changed the whole thing to 3
liters without thinkng.
Paul Trusten wrote:
>
> I get out my car here in Texas, walk towards the grocery store window,
> and beam with satisfaction at those wondeful posters screaming the
> special price of ONE LITER of soda or water (no WOMBAT conversion in
> those sales posters). How thoroughly the American public has embraced
> that unit, which came up and offered it a hug more than 25 years ago!
> The words "ONE LITER" are shown in the largest fonts the container
> bears--the WOMBAT units are the fine print. The soda industry has gone
> on to offer 3-liter containers.
>
> So, why can't we have metric milk? Why no 3-liter jug of moo juice?
> Anybody seen any SI skim in America? Don't the dairy barons want to seel
> 215 mL of additional product per container?
>
> A couple of years ago, someone on this list said (s)he had seen a
> 3-liter milk jug for sale, and I've been lookng, but no joy yet.
>
>
>
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from which all the others spring:
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