[USMA:30733] 0.5 liter bottles.

[John Nichols]

In our Albertsons they are now selling only the 0.5 liter plastic bottles, 
this started recently, until then they had been the old 600 ml and the 375 
ml.  Dr Pepper is in the new size bottles.

Interestingly the COKE bottles have 16.9 oz displayed prominently and in 
very small print in the back is 0.5 litres.  These people are very careful 
with their changes to do it slowly and without drawing attention to the 
change, they should be applauded for getting metric so well.  Now for the 
355 ml can and they will be fully metric at the standard 375mL

John Nichols  BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional 
Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University, Department of Construction Science
Langford AC Rm: A414   MD 3137, College Station, TX 77843-3137

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