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Again
-- it's because the cost of the product is not proportional to the size, when
other expenses are factored in. The salary of the bartender, the overhead
of the pub, etc., are fixed, regardless of the quantity of product vended.
A purely hypothetical example to illustrate the concept:
Half
pint: euros 1.60 for product, 0.40 for overhead = euros
2.00.
Full
pint: euros 3.20 for product, 0.40 for overhead = euros
3.60.
"What
do you mean a half pint is 2.00 and not 1.80??
Ripoff!!"
Carleton
A bit late in the day, perhaps, but I thought I would
comment on this as I have just returned from holiday in the Republic of
Ireland - Castlebar, County Mayo, in fact.
It IS true that you pay more than half the price of a pint
in Ireland and it does seem to be a rip-off as I've never known it to happen
in England.
The prices in Dublin are regarded as a rip-off anyway as you
ALWAYS pay more for a pint there. Around the west coast of Ireland, Mayo,
Galway, etc, the average for a pint was around E3.60 (just under
£2.50).
I'm at a loss why a half pint is changed at 9% more,
though. In England, especially the North East, they wouldn't stand for
it.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:11
PM
Subject: [USMA:30586] Irish Times
today
Letters to the editor.
Pub arithmetic
Madam, - One pint of Guinness: €3.85. Two half-pints of Guinness: €4.20.
A 9 per cent surcharge. For what?
Could we seek an EU harmonization directive demanding that the price of
284 ml of Guinness is half that of 568 ml? - Yours, etc.,
DENIS GILL, Dun Laoghaire, Co
Dublin.
The EU should harmonize this nonsense? Really?
BTW, all small portions are rip-offs anyway.
The news from the disaster in Belgium was
covered today in the Irish Times in a way that would do the BWMA
and the IAML proud.
Han
Historian of Dutch Metrication,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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