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Size Matters – A Rant

August 27, 2009 at 8:38 am Leave a comment

Since the early 1960′s the nations of the world have accepted the Metric System as the unit of measuring everything from distances to the size of kidney stones.  The United States has lagged behind the universal efforts and remains one of three, joining Burma and Liberia to fight the conversion.

There are however a few companies in this country that have embraced the metric system; mostly to their benefit. Take the soda industry,  can you think back to the time you bought a half gallon of pop?  Booze is the same way.  Without our knowing we now buy less for the same amount of money or even are paying more.  We purchase liters of our favorite beverages; 1.75 liters of Jack Daniels, do the math… a liter is only 30 ounces, not the 32 we all learned made up a quart.  That 1.75 liters of Jack is only 55.5 ounces, somehow we gave up our right to the other 8.5 ounces.  Maybe the booze manufacturers were worried about our livers and imposed a safety valve of less is better.

Now we come to the real reason I am writing this: someone, somewhere has been playing with the size of my ice cream packages.  We went silently into the night when the 64 ounce, half gallon became the smaller, metric version.  Just when we got used to that they switch on us again.  Last week, reaching into the cooler at the local grocery I grab a ( half gallon, downsized to about 50- some ounces) Breyers vanilla.  WAIT!!!! Something is not right!!!!! The new size is back to the old system of weights and measurements, to my chagrin the new 1/2 gal. is now 1.5 quarts.

Enough, give me back my “lost” 15 ounces.  Mess all you want with the 2 X 4 being only 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches but keep your greedy little hands off my ice cream.

Entry filed under: Rants, Semi-Rants and Non-Rants. Tags: ice cream, Jack Daniels, metric.