Pitchers are still very popular in the UK - especially if there is a rugby or football match on.
They're multiples of pints - and I *think* the most popular pitcher size is 3 pints. (I put in *think* just in case there is scope for some pedantry surrounding what I have said that can be used to pretend I'm wrong on a technicality of grammar or preciseness) Personally I don't like the idea - the drink warms up far too fast and it just makes you drink faster. By half time the big screen becomes a blur!!! ;-) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:28:25 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:44220] Re: the pub--ground zero for the metric system? To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] I'll bet nobody knew how much the pitcher held or even cared. Jerry From: Scott Hudnall <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 6:42:05 PM Subject: [USMA:44215] Re: the pub--ground zero for the metric system? I must have been drinking with alcoholics during my pub-crawling days. We always ordered beer by the pitcher ;-) On 2009-03 -28, at 18:50 , Paul Trusten wrote: Pubs and taverns are bastions of freedom. The American Revolution was hatched in the Buckman and Monroe Taverns of Lexington, Massachusetts, scarcely 3 kilometers from where I grew up. So, I guess you could say that the pint is symbol of freedom's ferment (grin). But, I fear that this same obsession with the standard serving size of a brewsky will also befall us Yanks, as it has in other countries. That won't be the end of it on this side of the pond, though. In the U.S., there will be all kinds of requests for exemptions from metrication and all kinds of fears that metrication will take over in areas in which it may not belong. Upon the announcement of the EU decision on supplemental indications, we saw headlines about "British can keep their pints (of alcoholic beverage poured in pubs)," as if this measure was the shibboleth of metrication in Europe. During the deliberations of a future U.S. Metric Board, these very psychological issues have got to be talked out. The measurement of goodsserved has to be clarified, so we won't have more customary-unit martyrdom. However, the U.S. pint is smaller than a half liter, and, as Pat suggests, there could be lobbying by the American brewing industry to keep it as a serving size. Does metrication belong in the pub, though? Can't bar patrons request a size that it outside of legal metrology but agreed upon in the drinkers' world? I would hate to see a Liliput-Blefuscu war break out over quaffing a few. Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122 Midland, Texas 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Free photo editing software from Windows Live . Try it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665240/direct/01/
