On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:58:47 -0800, Jim Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2002-03-18 at 08:21, Jim Elwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> "1 PINT 9.3 FL.OZ." >> >> No metric anywhere on the can, although it is a 750 mL can. Makes no sense >> to me. > >Beer is the one food product that doesn't have to have metric on it, so >I guess they figure they'll save the ink. Stupid, I know. Just back from Maryland: a colleague had a bottle of Sam Adams (?) beer (the Boston brew) and I had to search hard for any size indication. Finally found a solitary "12 oz". But what surprised me was that there was no indication of alcoholic strength. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
