Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.
Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)
Everything else is ounces or gallons, I’m sure someone will ‘umm actually’ me…but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!”
68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids…
olympic swimming pools for sure, football fields is for area, and elegants for weight
Elegant elephants
You mean the Oregonian gluten free bakery?
What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣
It’s no called “Imperial Measurement System” because it’s communist, that’s for sure.
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
Not where i live.
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
America might not be the entire world but it’s everywhere that matters in the world.
Wait wait, I first read this as satire but something’s not right. You’re not being serious are you?
It’s gotten increasingly difficult to tell with Maggie lately, but in this case I’m 99.9% certain that they’re satirizing stereotypical Americans rather than expressing a sincere opinion.
I’m always serious.
Not here.
Never heard of that.
Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
hwat
The silver lining is that people (Americans?) will be consuming less soda.
Nah, instead of 20oz it’ll be 33.8oz.
But more expensive, and I’m incredibly fine with that!
Misleading aside, I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
I don’t know if you’re just not from the US, but this dual labeling of groceries has been ongoing for decades. The US formally began transitioning to metric during the 1970s and has had plenty of dual uses ever since; it got cut short due to a mix of public apathy and active public disapproval, and when it was on its last legs, Reagan axed the metrification board early in his first term (not a defense, but it was seriously barely doing anything by that time because of public unwillingness to change). Rulers have inches and centimeters; there are imperial and metric tools; kids do learn metric in schools (usually in the context of a science class); etc. You aren’t expected to know metric as an average functioning adult, but it’s everywhere and useful to know in US society – usually just kind of in the background like here.
TL;DR: “Is adopting” said in 2026 in response to soda labels is a steep misunderstanding of metrification in the US.
We’re not. Except in inner cities where it’s thriving
we’re miles behind in rural areas
“Streets behind”, even.
I think you mean kilometers behind.
We measure sodas bigger than this in Liters.
Not other liquids… just Soda. Milk you buy a gallon of. Soda? 2 Liters. Saying you’re gonna buy a gallon of Soda sounds very strange to an American. There’s also 1 Liter bottles.
It’s the one of the most stupid Americanisms.
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)
From Wikipedia:
The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL).
Yes, but 20 ounces doesn’t equal 16 ounces, even for great values of 16.
The missing ingredient is air.
Yeah, what’s FL OZ? A parrot walked on the keyboard?
I believe this is what the c-suite types are referring to as “innovation”.
