• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    The fact that 98.7 percent of over 100k people could agree on anything is amazing to me.

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    10 months ago

    Holy shit the pint of wine measure is hilarious

    They’re definitely doing that to present as a success story and save face with the red faced express reader demographic.

    Wahey, some bottles might contain an extra double shot of wine!

    Not that I imagine anything was stopping wine makers from selling bottles that size, just not calling it a pint.

    Edit: okay they couldn’t before, but I still don’t see many jumping at the opportunity to retool their bottling for a weird size they can only sell here

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      10 months ago

      Standard bottles of wine are generally 750ml tho. So a pint would be less.
      The current small bottles are 187ml (personal?) and 375ml (half/demi).
      So, 568ml just doesn’t fit. And I have no idea who would actually produce them.

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        10 months ago

        Especially when the 500ml measure already legally exists—y’know that bottle size you never see because what’s the point of it

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        10 months ago

        English winemakers (yes, they exist…) who will now sell a pint of wine at the cost of a 0,75l bottle

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        10 months ago

        As a confused American, why does 187ml size exist? My confusion is not with the metric system, I’m fluentish. But… Why so small? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bottle of wine smaller than 500ml, and even that is pretty teeny. That’s the size of a water bottle. Am I just not shopping at the right liquor stores, or is this a British thing to do shots of wine?

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          10 months ago

          Do you not step foot in liquor stores? They have 4 packs of Sutter Home and other cheap wine brands in 4 packs of 187 ML. 4 bottles = 750 ml bottleish. They are meant to bring as singles to events or picnics or whatever. These have existed for far longer than those small 500 Ml wine boxes.

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              10 months ago

              Even the most dodgy liquor stores sell these in my experience. But I do not traverse the Midwest, so maybe mileage will vary.

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                10 months ago

                Where I’m from the government owns all the liquor stores so we don’t get everything. We may have those though, I’ve never looked.

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          10 months ago

          I think it is for travel and hospitality places. Not something you would typically buy in a shop or liquor store but more a hotel or at an airport or similar.

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        10 months ago

        1/3 pint is 189 ml, so basically a glass of wine at 1/4 a bottle is a third of a pint. It’s pretty much the sweet spot where metric and imperial meet for volume measurements.