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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Yeah, but that’s a really bad comparison. It’s useful for rough estimates when needed, but it’s not something we interact with often enough for it to be practical. It’s when everyday products are being sold in metric length that it will start to click. Stuff like 20cm diameter pizzas, wooden boards by the meter, a 1.8m TV, and square meterage of an apartment.


  • Specifically we have 2L jugs of it and individual bottles are marketed as 16.9oz (they’re 500mL). Cans are still in US customary at 12 oz (355mL). But yeah, basically every American knows how much 2L is.

    In fact, I strongly suspect you could market most liquids in metric volume here (not fuel) as long as people can see them. We’re so used to 500mL and 2L. Hell just changing the standard can and the tall boy (16oz) to metric (make them 375mL and 500mL) would go a long way.

    That all said, full metrication will screw with recipes, but it’ll internationalize them.