Sunday 25 November 2007
2 Litre Milk Cartons
I saw a 2 litre milk carton of super milk while doing the weekly shop yesterday. Putting the milk into the fridge after dinner just reminded me of it. What genius came up with that one? I'd like to know how many fridges in Ireland could fit it on the door of the fridge??? Unless you have one of those American style monstrosities, (which I lust after but would look a tad out of place in the small kitchen of my three bed semi.), you're slightly banjaxed once you've opened it. What are you supposed to do with it? Lie it down sideways on the shelf and hope it doesn't leak? I think not. Ah the absurdity of it!
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I think you meant something like those 4 litre cartons, which are "about 6 pints" to old-fashioned people.
Sometimes we get those 4L cartons because our new fridge can take them, but it usually turns out cheaper to buy two 2L cartons instead, funnily enough.
It seems that most milk cartons sold in supermarkets these days (as of October 2008) no longer have "2.252 litres, 4 pints" on the label; they finally switched to litres alone. That doesn't bother me too much as I'm 20 years old and I was mostly educated in metric, but it annoys me slightly how the price of a 2 litre carton seems the same as a 2.252 litre one, thereby conning people out of about a cupful of milk...
And the label on a Spar milk carton that I've just looked at in the recycling box reads, "2 litres, 3.52 pints" -- which has even more potential for confusion, as I thought it was only Americans who used decimal points when writing old units... Then again, if it wasn't for draught alcohol still stubbornly sold in terms of pints, I probably wouldn't have much idea of what a pint was. Not that I drink much, of course. (Incidentally, why is it "shameful" for a man to drink half-pints? It's just a volume of liquid...)
Sorry for my "anally retentive" rambling.
Just as an aside, our new fridge isn't double-wide or "American", but it is much taller than our old one (which was shorter than me and I'm 5 feet 7 -- there goes the Imperial shackles again; I think it's about 173cm or something, haven't measured my height lately).
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