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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

When having a beer, I've always found it funny that one of the few imperial measurements metric nations kept around, the pint, America went and invented their own. Uncharacteristically a smaller version too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Every time I hear, "pint" I think of Pippin saying, "they come in pints?!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, here in good ol Austria, when we go to an US/UK/Irish pub and order a pint we always get 0,5L and for a 1/2 pint we get 0,33L.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are half pints half the price of pints? I smell arbitrage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sadly, no.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US has their own version of all the imperial units. Also who uses pints except the Brits?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

India, I think. But that's the Brits' fault too obviously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don't use pint here. We have some traditional measures that have different absolute values depending on location. We are almost totally metric here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I could've sworn I once had a pint but it was in a hotel lobby in Bangalore so not quite representative. I stand corrected, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

America didn't really invent their own volume of measurements, they just didn't keep up.

They used what the British used, then separated from Britain, and didn't update the units when Britain did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Metric nations havent kept the pint

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I just started looking up the different ways to order beers. Wow. Even if it's based on the metric system, each country really did go and reinvent the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They haven't, but some still sell beer by pints. I can go to a store right now (well not right now, it's past 10 PM) and buy a pint sized beer and a 0.5l beer from the same company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, I think the US pint is 16 Oz (2 cups), whereas the UK pint is 20 Oz (4 gills).