It's easier to carry beer and milk in those sizes and they're about the right amount for use. A cup of beer is too small, a litre too big as you'll end up with a flat beer by the end. A pint of milk will give 2 people their breakfast and enough left over to add for tea for the day. Rare to find some off milk in the bottom of a pint bottle.
I'm guessing that why they were sold in those amounts vs some other choice. It's just my experience though.
Yet the Germans get along just fine with steins of half litre or full litre. Maybe they're doing beer wrong.
In Australia, standard beer glass size varies from state to state -- here in NSW we have a schooner (at 425ml) or if you're after something smaller, a middy (285ml).
Using metric does not mean you need to always and only drink 1 litre of beer, drive at 100km an hour, constantly stoop so you're 1m tall, etc.
> Yet the Germans get along just fine with steins of half litre or full litre.
Good for them.
> In Australia, standard beer glass size varies from state to state -- here in NSW we have a schooner (at 425ml) or if you're after something smaller, a middy (285ml).
I know. You can buy a yard of ale in the UK at participating outlets. None of that has any relevance to whether a pint is more convenient than a litre. A schooner is more convenient than a litre.
> Using metric does not mean you need to always and only drink 1 litre of beer, drive at 100km an hour, constantly stoop so you're 1m tall, etc.
> None of that has any relevance to whether a pint is more convenient than a litre.
But one pint versus one litre doesn't have relevance to anything, does it?
It seems you've heard the suggestion to adopt a sensible, integrated, and (much more) widely used measurement system -- and are choosing to argue against specific numbers / quantities of things.
Originally you said 'a litre [of beer] is too big as you'll end up with a flat beer'.
Metric doesn't mean you must sell, buy, or drink beer in round numbers.
