From: Karljürgen Feuerherm (cuneiform@rogers.com)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 13:30:19 EDT
John Cowan replied:
Rick McGowan scripsit:
>> Which explains to me why a pint of bitter in England seems quite so
>> enormous... well for a small Yank... ;-)
>Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a liter
of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah, that's
just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the Flintstone one
is only .47 liters.
That's ridiculous. How can a litre be too much? If anything, it is too little. Witness the DECENT-sized steins in use in Bavaria... (of course, I concede that it is only good if one has DECENT beer, and otherwise probably really is too much.)
K
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