IanBrown_101
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Joined: April 2007
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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Dec. 16 2007,06:20) | | Quote (IanBrown_101 @ Dec. 15 2007,20:24) | | Quote (Tracy P. Hamilton @ Dec. 12 2007,16:45) | | Quote (Richard Simons @ Dec. 12 2007,08:56) | | Quote (Tracy P. Hamilton @ Dec. 06 2007,13:31) | | 32 fl. oz = 1 quart = 946 mL, so a drink of usual strength liquor is 44 mL, pretty close to your 50 mL. |
Only in the US system. In the UK it is 40 fluid ounces to a quart.
I've just been trying to explain the UK/US system to a group of Canadian adults who are only familiar with litres. The US system is even crazier than the UK system, with different sizes of barrels and quarts depending on what is in them, tons that are noticably smaller than metric tonnes, grain that is measured in bushels but converted to tons using different conversion factors for each crop and so on.
After that, I really feel in need of a soothing drink. . . |
A note for those used to a UK pint being 20 fl. oz: what many US bars call the "pint" glass is really a 13 oz "standard" glass. |
So, not only is your beer terrible, you actually get LESS of it?
Ouch, how do you people cope? |
Wait, if it's bad beer, you'd want more??? |
you would get drunk cheaper and quicker, so you would forget it was bad.
But no, those things are both just...wrong. A pint should be a pint, not something less just because you don't "do" imperial measures.
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