Interestingly enough, this just reminded me of when I saw 300 mL bottles of Dasani water (a Coke brand) in a vending machine last July.
I had gotten lost while trying to find my way around my then-unfamiliar college campus. After walking some, I ended up in a random building, and, as someone who was walking around in near-40 °C heat and 90-something percent humidity, I bought the first bottle of water I could find. It was only after I chugged the water that I realized that, similar to this vending machine<http://i1.disneyfoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sodapop.jpg>which sells 591 mL bottles, the bottles' volumes were listed on the machine. Unlike that vending machine, however, the machine didn't state its bottle volume in fluid ounces; it just had a simple "300ml" label. The fact that I had found a hard-metric-sized bottle of water under the size of 500 mL here in the States, with only a 300 mL label to boot (albeit not on the bottle, per current dual-labeling requirements), was more than enough for me to forgive the lack of space between quantity and symbol in "300ml". *Zach Rodriguez* http://twitter.com/#!/metric8america http://twitter.com/#!/zachrodriguez On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]>wrote: > The BBC reported that Coke is again selling its product in Burma. The > associated picture at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19550067 shows a > large advertisement for 200 ml bottles/cans (?) of Coke for Rs 5.**** > > ** ** > > Is this an indication that Burma is moving further down the metrication > path? >
