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And the UK can still buy a "pint" of beer or milk, which is both technically (and legally) 568ml - but I only know that measure because I looked it up!

• thrance 2y ago
  Here in France, a "pinte" of beer is 50cl. The other standard serving you can order is a "demi", which is 25cl.
  • Daviey 2y ago
    If it requires me to start ordering a glass of warm flat beer using the metric measure of 568ml, i'd start doing that rather than reduce it by 68ml. :)
    • smcl 2y ago
      The warm/flat thing is a peculiar (often American) stereotype and it's a bit of a misnomer - I'm gonna try to dispel it a bit because it's quite an interesting topic. The beers you're talking about are served cool (though not ice cold as you're actually meant to taste something) and are generally quite good - they're made in smaller breweries often serving local communities and are usually served in pubs that tend to take pride in what they're serving[0] - cleaning the lines between each keg, monitoring temperatures in cellars, discarding kegs that are a bit off rather than serving them. "Flat" implies something was infused with carbon dioxide to become fizzy but then left out accidentally to go stale, whereas these are purposefully only as fizzy as the brewer intended. Sometimes there's a light carbonation, sometimes not. The beers you want to avoid are those that are mass-produced and what I'd describe as "lager adjacent" - Carling, Fosters, Stella, Kronenbourg and whatever US stuff makes it over. They're served everywhere and are, in my opinion, quite underwhelming if you're used to proper lager-type beer (idk what the preferred English nomenclature is, here it's ležák). I definitely prefer Czech beer but UK ales are something I do enjoy. [0] - let's not mention Wetherspoons
      • mckn1ght 2y ago
        > Czech beer I love a good pilsner. Give us the lowdown on that next!
        • smcl 2y ago
          I’m not sure anything I say will be of great value outside of Czech Republic - you can get Pilsner Urquell and Budvar (sometimes Kozel) in bottles/cans which are fine but not spectacular. The best beer I encounter is Pilsner Urquell or Radegast from tanks rather than barrels (it arrives in special trucks that pump the beer into large tanks usually in the pub’s cellars) or from smaller breweries like Dalešice, Beskydy or Polička and you likely won’t encounter these anywhere else in the world :(
• walthamstow 2y ago
  You can also still buy a 8x4ft sheet of plywood (or, as the merchant will call it, a twelve twenty by two four forty!)
• hulitu 2y ago
  > And the UK can still buy a "pint" of beer or milk, which is both technically (and legally) 568ml - but I only know that measure because I looked it up! Damn, when i was in the UK i thought a pint(of beer) (0.473 liter) is smaller that half liter. But this seems to be the US definition.
  • Daviey 2y ago
    This is news to me! "The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in the United Kingdom and Ireland and to a limited extent in Commonwealth nations. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL)." - Wikipedia
    • smcl 2y ago
      Glad I checked back in this thread, I had never heard of the 473ml liquid pint or 551ml dry pint - that’s super interesting!