• zeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    8 months ago

    618ml equates exactly to 600ml + 3% - maybe manufacturers add 3% on top because that’s the maximum allowable variance in quantities?

    From a quick search, 412ml and 515ml both seem pretty common too.

  • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    8 months ago

    In Canada we have a lot of that and I always assumed we import things from America and then just change the labels. The metric usually converts to a more reasonable number in imperial.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      1·
      8 months ago

      We get the joy of both here in the US. Both are required to be listed and either can be a nice round number but generally it is the imperial one.

      • dan@upvote.au
        3·
        8 months ago

        I love that both are listed.

        You do sometimes see nice round metric numbers, for example soft drinks (soda / pop) often come in 2 litre bottles.

        I’m still unsure as to why soft drink bottles are measured in litres while milk is measured in gallons… A carton of milk (half a gallon, 1.9L) is almost as large as a bottle of soft drink (2L) so it’s strange they haven’t converged.

        There’s also things like the TSA liquids limit, which is defined as exactly 100mL but commonly written as 3.4 fl oz.

        • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          8 months ago

          Milk has been sold in gallons longer than pop has existed is my only guess for why milk hasn’t switched.

          The US government has been very on board with metric, for example the US was one of the original signatories of the metric convention. It’s just not simple to mandate that people stop using traditional units and instead use the official standard units.

          Pepsi and coke both have significant international business, which makes standard bottles appealing.
          Additionally, in the mid seventies when the US was last making a push towards making the private sector switch Pepsi as a marketing gimmick switched to a bottle that was bigger than a typical coke bottle and also metric.
          https://youtu.be/L6O4UeowF5I?si=fncOmRnbigWOrAsR

          They hoped to be ahead of the curve in the US, better value than coke, and use one bottle everywhere.

  • kambusha@feddit.ch
    5·
    8 months ago

    Which country?

    I think the other commenter is on the right track and it’s likely a conversion from another standard unit. I would’ve said pint but a pint is 568ml.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    4·
    8 months ago

    Working at a store, you can rest assured that number will get smaller in a year or less. I’ve caught dozens of products getting smaller but costing the same.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    Huh. I put 618ml in Google and hit “shopping” filter and only one item comes up in that size, a hair cream somewhat ominously named Fakeshu.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    If all those different products, with different shapes containers, have the same number then I’m not sure

    But I do sometimes see things like shampoo coming in weird sizes because of the shape of the bottle

  • yads@lemmy.ca
    2·
    8 months ago

    Possibly started with a different volume then through shrinkflation ended up at 618 mL

  • TMarkos@beehaw.org
    2·
    8 months ago

    It’s rather close to 1/6 of a US gallon, so if sold in a 6pk the pack would be 1 gallon. No idea if that’s the real reason but it makes sense to me.

  • Devi@kbin.social
    32·
    8 months ago

    Do you perhaps mean 568ml? It’s a pint and beer quite commonly comes in that size. Some water, like liquid death comes in that size, and I’ve just googled and so does shampoo.

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
    28·
    8 months ago

    It’s the Illuminati. They have to tell/show you what they’re doing for some reason. Probably has to do with that. I don’t know what it means though. And yes, I read conspiracy theories.