Re: "Half-gallon"

Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >	
> >Remember when you could buy a half-gallon of ice cream? Then they
> >changed it to 1.75 qt. Most people probably never noticed it. I
> >bought a few packages of Bryers last week, on sale 2/$6. Oh, BTW,
> >now they're 1.5 qt. The container is now tapered, so you don't
> >quite notice it.
> 
> Up here, we started with two Imperial quarts.  Then we had two litres.
> Now we get two American quarts (1.8 litres or some such).  Since we
> started at 2.5 US quarts, we're only now arriving where you ended up.
> 
> Consider it a diet product.  You're getting 25% less calories per
> package.

Glad they are loooking after our health!  Liquor bottles were
long ago 'health-sized' in the USA.  Just think, a pint used to
be a pint! and a half pint then was so much more than a
half pint now.