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Quite fancying a quaff of the old beverage the other day, I frequented a ye olde "Britishe Pube", relishing the thought of a traditional foaming, nut-brown ice-cool 40 degree imperial pint. (This is either a joke about British beer, or American measurements, you decide.)
"Good eve, stout yeoman of the bar," I said heartily. "A flagon of your finest tipple, preferably in good old British imperial 551 ml or 473 ml pint fashion, if you please, squire".
He said, "This is Noo Yawk, bud. And it's 11:30am, not evening. And a British imperial pint is 568 ml, not 551 ml or 473 ml, which are American pints, for reasons I don't know, probably King George, Google it. And by the way, Sir, this is a Wendy's."
It wasn't a Wendy's, it was a chop shop, but I have to admit that was a good one, especially as they were very large 6 ft tall gentlemen unloading one kilo bricks of heroin, and looked like they knew their way around a 12 inch monkey wrench or 9mm Beretta.
TL;DR: gun nuts and drug dealers (and NASA) use metric in the US, and nobody measures their pizzas in centimeters