On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 09:33:48 -0700, Ezra Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can you remind us (or at least me! ;-) a bit of what the UK experience >has been with these items? >Thanks! >Ezra Ezra: I'll answer this, and Terry can correct me or add to it: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thanks. How about: >> >> Gasoline Litre pricing started some time in the 80s, I believe, but it only became widespread as we got to the 90s and then standard shortly after. Gallon prices can still be included, but it's almost never seen now. >> Butter Been in 250 g/500 g packs since the late 70s. >> Soda I remember hearing radio ads in the early 70s for the 'new litre-size Coke'. >> Toothpaste Again, I think this changed in the 70s (it's so long since I've seen anything but metric I honestly can't be sure!) >> Milk UHT milk has been sold in 500 ml/1 l packs since the late 70s or maybe early 80s, and I can remember seeing litre packs of fresh milk around the same time, but they never took off. Most supermarket packs are still in multiples of pints (unless you want organic, in which case it comes in 1 pint and 1 litre packs - as does Channel Islands milk) or if you want goat's milk, in which case it comes in 750 ml packs! >> Beer Most cans in supermarkets are no 500 ml, but with quite a few 440 ml. Smaller cans tend to be 275 ml or 330 ml (e.g. Bud). I don't know if pubs are different, but nearly all bottled beer in stores comes in 500 ml size. Larger poly bottles are 1/1.5/2 litre. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
