• pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    107·
    2 个月前

    To be fair, that marketing language is likely pointed at the main competitor of Monster drinks in US - Red Bull. Which is a European brand and is packaged in smaller cans.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    46·
    2 个月前

    I worked at McDs during the 1/3 Angus burger and… yes. It happened, more times than I’d like. I tried convincing a couple people, then after that who cared. I was getting $8/hr. Fuck it it’s a worse deal and you get a smaller burger but you do you genius.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 个月前

    Pretty sure this is a poke at 8oz Red Bulls and not their own brand… But, you know, anything to make fun of the idiot Americans, eh?

    • Codpiece@feddit.uk
      59·
      2 个月前

      I thought it was that most Americans would be too ignorant to know that the European one is larger anyway and they wouldn’t bother to check. They’d just think “fuck yeah, murica” or something, and get back to their 78 hour working week.

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
      2·
      2 个月前

      Wait but they do sell a 16 oz one according to redbull

      I don’t live in the US of A, tho

    • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Well… yes. Yes, kinda. The “1/3 is smaller than 1/4” is a real thing being referenced, and how smart is that?

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
    34·
    2 个月前

    I’ll never understand how people drink this axe spray flavored toxic piss. They all taste like what I imagine chemical runoff tastes like.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        14·
        2 个月前

        Funnily enough, that would be pretty hard to find in Estonia these days, only a few alcohol stores carry Russian stuff anymore

        Very multi-cultural though, you got a “czech style” beer made in Russia from Estonia

        Of course the truly big beers come in 2 liter bottles and are consumed by… well let’s say not the favourite customers of store clerks working in small grocery stores in small towns.

        • 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 个月前

          Apparently that is actually the measurement of gravity in the Plato scale. The beer has 4.9% abv, and 12 degrees of gravity (??)

          Here’s what I found from wikipedia

          “By considering the original gravity, the brewer or vintner obtains an indication as to the probable ultimate alcoholic content of their product. The OE (original extract) is often referred to as the “size” of the beer and is, in Europe, often printed on the label as Stammwürze or sometimes just as a percent. In the Czech Republic, for example, common descriptions are “10 degree beers”, “12 degree beers” which refer to the gravity in Plato of the wort before the fermentation.”

          • cabillaud@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 个月前

            I didn’t even see the "4.9%“. I thought it was one of those horrible beers. Plato scale. OK, I learnt something.

        • Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 个月前

          4.9% is the alcohol percentage, 12% is the sugar percentage that was present at the start of the brewing.

          Didn’t find a better source that this wiki page. There’s another similar sugar related unit which is degree…

          All inferior as it is an indirect measure of the amount of alcohol in the can.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      8·
      2 个月前

      Is that centiliters? I wasn’t aware that was a commonly used unit. I’ve only ever seen ml. But how does the 50+6.5 thing work? Is there like a second reservoir, or is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?

      • remon@ani.social
        13·
        2 个月前

        Yes, Switzerland is weirdly obsessed with centilitres, not sure why. But it’s metric so it’s not a big deal.

        is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?

        Yes.

      • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 个月前

        Common enough in a drinks context. But really, that doesn’t matter because it’s metric: you’re not going to end up with 4269 fartbuckets to the whateverthefuck. Instead it says centi so it’s a 100th of the thing, which is barely even mental arithmetic at all.

        It’s slightly larger than the standard 500ml can, the + is because they’d like to emphasize the “bonus”

          • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 个月前

            Prefixes aren’t specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you’re talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux… go nuts.

            (This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone’s height are common)

            • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
              1·
              2 个月前

              right, I’m fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I’m guessing each country (or perhaps it’s more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I’m sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it’s just not something I’ve seen someone doing.

      • M137@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 个月前

        It’s basically just saying “hey, it’s more than 50cl!” (Which is a common can size). It’s a pretty stupidly small amount to have different cans and advertise for IMO, at least make it 10cl more.

  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    Full load

    Bursting with real juice

    Why do I feel like I’m listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    2 个月前

    I really miss the 1/3 lb burgers at so many places that dropped them because idiots don’t understand fractions…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      4·
      2 个月前

      How is it even that difficult to understand? ¼ is 25% of a pound ⅓ is 33% of a pound.

      33 is a bigger number then 25. Where is the confusion coming from?

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          1·
          2 个月前

          Where is it they’re getting confused is it that people don’t understand fractions or that they don’t understand percentages? Because fractions are taught to 12 year olds using cake or pizza is an analogy I thought Americans would be on board with that.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      The bodacious bacon cheeseburger at Roy Rogers.

      They were slightly elongated but otherwise the same, bacon, cheese, zesty ranch. Served on a matching elongated bun.

  • FluidBeef@quokk.auEnglish
    16·
    2 个月前

    Still traumatised by the time I ordered a slice of cherry pie in an American diner, and instead of the brobdingnagian monstrosity decades of movies and TV had accustomed me to expect I got what I can only describe as minimum viable pie.

    • revelrous@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      2 个月前

      You experienced the on going desecration of the american social contract. The diabetic-coma inducing, entirely proposturously large servings of small town diner pie is absolutely a thing. I am sorry you were cheated of this.

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 个月前

    Gotta give the yanks the w here. We’re the real losers for poisoning ourselves ever so slightly more

  • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 个月前

    Ah, so that’s what 16oz means.

    Here in the UK I see more and more places (coffee shops modelled after Starbucks mostly I guess) and places serving soft drinks mention them in ounces and I have no idea what they mean. I’m 99% sure it’s illegal to do so as well, but the relentless march of USI continues.