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Out of curiosity (as a non-brit), do you ever measure anything in pints that's not a beer? I'm somewhat aware that milk might still be sold in pints - I just f
by ThePadawan 5y ago
Out of curiosity (as a non-brit), do you ever measure anything in pints that's not a beer?
I'm somewhat aware that milk might still be sold in pints - I just find it interesting that the word has in common usage really lost the connotation of being a measurement and just mostly means "a beer" now.
E.g. "I'm going out for a pint", "I've had a couple of pints", "I'm not much of a drinker, but I'll have a pint or two a month".
- UglyToad 5y agoI genuinely have forgotten now but I think you're right that milk is still pints. I just think of them as "the little one, the normal one and the big one" which I think are 1/2/4 pints respectively. I think where stuff is still normally discussed in pints it's due to that still being the standard measure for retail. For whatever reason milk and beer retained the pint. Also volume of blood in pints weirdly seems to be standard, e.g. when talking about medical stuff informally. The only measure that seems to have gone fully metric in day to day life outside of a few holdouts is temperature.
- pmyteh 5y agoMilk is both. Reusable delivered glass bottles are pints. Small supermarket plastic bottles are 568ml (1pt). Larger ones are either 1136ml (2pt) or 1l. Big ones are 2l and 3l.
- pmyteh 5y agoThe beer context still applies in other more metric countries too. The 250ml glass is known as the 'demi' in French, meaning half a (metricated) pint.