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Perhaps if the 4-liter container was tall and slender?? Or, maybe it should
be 3-liter, like Ocean Spray juices have become. Ocean Spray and others
found that a 3-liter bottle is lighter to carry than the 3.785 liter, and
can be designed to fit in the inside compartment of the refrigerator door.
Wegman's in New York has made 3-liter milk.
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Sent: 06 Oct 21,Saturday 12:34
Subject: [USMA:37405] Re: Losing the
battle by inches | Chicago Tribune
I would also liike to see the Coke bottles in 600mL packages.
Somehow that 591mL number bothers me. The one thing I think might be a little
weird is that Americans are used to buying milk by the gallon and if you
rounded it up to a four liter bottle it wouldnt fit in my fridge so I wonder
if they'd just keep that as 3.785L.
I did just see a package of
dental floss that had a 50 meter length on it but no US equivalent measure so
I've now seen one product officially. This was given to me by my dentist
and not sold in a store though so maybe that changes it somehow.
The
only other thing that really bothers me is when metric labels use commas
instead of periods. .5L I'm okay with but ,5L just bugs me for some reason.
Makes me feel like there was some phrase before the measurement and I lost
half a sentence somewhere :). The period on the other hand to me is a natural
stop point so if I see 3.785L it just makes more sense.
I also have to
convert millimeteres to centimeters every time I see them because I'm so used
to thinking of an inch as 2.54cm. Case in point being the other day there were
some Rubbermaid plastic containers that were 25cmx30cmx25cm and for fun I
mentally switched them to millimeters. Somehow I lost all sense of how big the
box actually was. If it hadn't been right there in front of me I might have
had to go find a ruler and remeasure it in centimeters so I got my bearings
back.
I''m sure many other people from metric countries have the same
feeling whenever they come to the US.
On 10/21/06, Paul
Trusten, R.Ph. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I haven't seen U.S. metric-only labeling (it is not legal yet), but I
have certainly seen metric-only advertising. Store marquees and shelf
tags hawk liter-sized beverages. I even saw a convenience store marquee
that was thinking decimal metric when it said "Ozarka Spring Water 0.5
LITER." While we are supposed to follow the rule of 1000 in the U.S.
(a unit of less than one gets stated in its submultiple, e.g., 500 mL
instead of 0.5 L), I saw liters expressed in decimal submultiples on Coca
Cola and other bottled beverages in Germany. I kinda liked that, even though
it wasn't very instructional (didn't let people use SI prefixes).
Mike,I am certain that if the FPLA amendment went into effect now, and
Coca Cola removed the non-metric labeling from its liter-sized bottles,
no American, save the anti-metric fanatics (there are some) would
notice or complain. I think I can say that, as far as the people of
the U.S. are concerned, the liter is the psychological standard of
measurement for carbonated beverages, and removing the non-metric statement
would not at all be unfair to U.S. consumers. That is why that, during
National Metric Week, I wrote to a Coca Cola official urging his company to
round the vending machine bottles from 591 mL to 600 mL, so they'd be
labeled "600 mL (20.3 fl.oz.)."
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06 Oct 21,Saturday 10:11
Subject:
[USMA:37402] Re: Losing the battle by inches | Chicago Tribune
Interesting article. Thanks for posting it . I haven't seen
any packages being sold with solely metric units on them though from what
I can recall of my trips to various stores. I've seen packages with the
metric label first like dishwasher soap book tape and several other items,
but never metric only. At Best Buy where I work we do have several price
signs that mistakenly got printed that were SI only (3m network cables for
example). No customers have complained, nor do they complain when I give
them ranges on things like wireless in meters either so maybe it's not as
unknown in the US as people would have us believe.
Anyone else
seen metric only package labels in their travels?
Mike
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