2002-10-22 I disagree with your statement that she wants to sell beer in litres. What she wants to sell beer in is her Austrian flutes and steins. Her words are below:
She insists: "Flutes and steins are integral to the flavour of Austrian beer and we've now collected around 1,200 signatures in three weeks from customers who want to keep them." It just so happens those flutes and steins come from Austria and are available only in litre sizes. So the issue appears to be a metric size issue. To her it is not an issue of pints vs litres, it is a matter of an ordinary glass that happens to be a pint size and a beer stein that happens to be in litres. To everyone else, it is a metric vs imperial issue. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ezra Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2002-10-22 20:22 Subject: [USMA:22882] Anachronistic measures > Chris mentioned anachronistic measures in his comments about the case of the > Austrian woman who wants to be able to serve beer in litres. In that vein I > just came across the following: > > mutchkin -- a Scottish liquid measure of four gills. The old Scottish gallon > contained eight pints, sixteen chopins, 32 mutchkins, or 128 gills. > > (Hmmmm...I wonder if the BWMA would support the return of the mutchkin, > along with the gill and the chopin. Care to find out, Chris? ;-) >
