Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <EACHUS.95Jan27144621@spectre.mitre.org>,
Robert I. Eachus <eachus@spectre.mitre.org> wrote:
>
>     The United States has (officially) been on the metric system for
>centuries.  However the government has little or no ability to force
>people to change the way they think.  Shell tried to switch to pumps
>that sold gas in liters many years ago.  They survived the experiment.

But soft drinks are typically sold in liter bottles now, even in the
backward U.S. Liquid refreshment may in fact be sold formally by the
metric system in Europe, but the actual bottle sizes certainly are
not in round numbers. Soft drinks In Europe tend to come in strange
(though metric) sizes, like 33 cl. Beer too, I think. And one definitely
runs into 750 ml wine bottles. Marketing, no doubt, just like here.

Mike Feldman