96 oz is 3 quarts, so the 2.8 L is just nicely rounded that's all. They're still thinking in customary.
Remek On Mar 19, 2020, 19:59, at 19:59, Mark Henschel <[email protected]> wrote: >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 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >USMA mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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