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If they just put the salt in the packet it would all fall to the bottom until they found a way to make it stick to the crisps. Then they started to put other flavoured coatings like cheese and onion.

About the same time they changed from bags made of greaseproof paper to plastic, and we had to learn how to open them (by pulling them apart or popping them) as you couldn't tear them open like the greaseproof paper ones.

I think the "salt and shake" ones with the separate blue bag of salt can in a few years later. I don't know why they chose to do that, but they definitely taste different - and, to me, better - from the ready salted.

Local california german restaurant serves 0.5 liter beers, but yes, that's out of the ordinary in the US.

Unless they serve it in a marked beaker, I wouldn't make a distinction between 0.47 and 0.5 litre. I'd probably spill that much down my chin.

I sentence you to eating British food for the rest of your life. That's cruel but just.

They do, indeed serve it in Spaten mugs with half liter markings.

Original Kinsey quote:

That may have something to do with the state of Montana not having a sales tax. The last politician who said 'sales tax' was fed to the grizzlies.

Call me cynical but one of the early adopters of the metric system was the liquor trade. A common bottle size was a 'fifth', one fifth of a US gallon, which is 25.6 US ounces or 757 ml. The bottle quickly became 750 ml.

Trivial, unless you're bottling booze and those extra 7 mls add up to a 'free' bottle for every 107.

I don't drink beer but afaik a bottle of beer is still 12 US ounces or 355 ml. It's haphazard. I'm looking at a bottle of flavored water that is 17 oz or 503 ml both of which are odd numbers.

Yeah, it was the incredible shrinking fifth that I was thinking of. Soda goes the other way, with 2 liters being more than 2 quarts. I don't drink beer but cans of Monster are still 16 ounces (473 ml).

I wonder how much it has to do with production efficiency. I don't know if a 'fifth' bottle changed or if it was filled with 7 ml less. Changing a 12 ounce glass bottle or 16 ounce can would be a pita all down the line. 2 liter blow molded soda bottles would mean new molds but they're relatively inexpensive. The finish (neck) dimension stays the same and I don't know if you'd even have to change the preform.

You've got to think about volume. Those mils add up.

They've got nothing on the bakers.

Pre-metrication standard loaves in the UK were 1 or 2 pounds - 454 (1) or 908 grams.

When we went metric they should have course gone to the nearest value - a little larger, at 500 and 1000g.

Did they ****.

Keeping them almost the same, at 450 and 900, might have made sense - you don't want to have to replace all the tins.

But instead they went down to 400 and 800. I don't recall the price changing...

Andy

Yeah, they always have trouble with the notion of state sovereignty.

They add up for the bar. I don't drink enough for it to matter. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had beer in a bar or restaurant. I've always preferred to drink at home.

Many items in the grocery store have reduced in actual product but the container stays the same size. They think the people doing the buying will notice.

It's been a long time so I'd probably succumb to sticker shot at the price of a well drink at the joints around town.

Corrected your post.

It had slipped my mind so when I got a letter from the MT Dept. of Revenue last week my first thought was 'What do they want now?' It was a pleasant surprise to see a check for $1,250 as a rebate on my 2021 tax.

How many states have surplus revenue and actually give it back?

Getting the exact amount shown on the label, or slightly over, is a legal issue in the USA.

If you buy a hundred bags of potato chips and weigh them on a precise scale, which we did, none are below weight. And none are over by more than about half a chip. Most are over by less than half the average chip.