Mark, Interesting that they did not give it to 2.84 L, as they seem to use 2 decimal places for the gallon as 3.78 L! Overdoing the precision, as if the amount is precise to 0.01 L!
Don From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mark Henschel Sent: Thursday, 19 March, 2020 17:59 To: USMA List Server <[email protected]>; U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>; Benham, Elizabeth (Fed) <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: [USMA 1311] It took me a while to figure this out. I noticed this strange size of milk bottle in a Wisconsin grocery store a few weeks ago and it surprised me. Since the major drinks in Wisconsin are milk and beer, these are sacred commodities here. So to see a 2.8 liter milk bottle was quite unusual. One expects gallon, or half gallon, or quart, or pint or maybe 12 ounces. But 2.8 liters? Could the Wisconsin dairy industry have secretly gone metric in the middle of the night and not told anybody about it? What an amazing event, were it to be true. But upon further math I realized that this size is really 96 ounces, which is three quarts. Not two quarts, Not four quarts. Not one quart. But three quarts? If people accept 2.8 liters, and not the typical one, two or four quart sizes, one would hope they would also accept a three liters size. It really looked good there for a moment, like Wisconsin had quietly gone metric, but even three quarts shows people are willing to accept different dairy product sizes rather than the standard one, two or four quart sizes. Mark Henschel
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