McDonald's giant drinks return

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/business ... per17.html

Now that is a beverage fit for a Neanderthal.

Any folks able to translate the weird american wieight of a drink into ml's or liters? Just trying to understand how much coke you need to get a weight of 64 ounces...

Also, can any one enlighten me as to why americans weigh liquids?

Thanks, not yank bashing, just want to know.

Google calculator says

64 US fluid ounces = 1 892.7059 milliliters

They don't. The (US) fluid ounce is a measure of volume equal to one sixteenth of a (US) pint and a pint is an eighth of a gallon. An ounce is equal to one sixteenth of a pound. To further confuse the issue, in England a fluid ounce is one twentieth of a (UK) pint and a pint is an eighth of a gallon, but a UK gallon is 20.1% larger than a US gallon! Give me the metric system any day, SI units preferably.

So why don't they just say 'A six pack of coke in a cup'

Yes, except on clocks huh?

That's true, I do like my imperial time with its seven day weeks and conveniently sized hours. But for every thing else, I like metric. Perhaps metric time with an imperial sized week wouldn't be such a bad thing, we already use metric prefixes for small units of time (milli- nano- etcetera).

I like using the American units... but that is just because I like Fractions. And I don't get to work with fractions nearly enough in my day to day life, so when I get to use American units... its like a special treat for me.

Hey if anyone was that thirsty on a hot day, they would grab a huge drink just like I would. Yeah it is full of sweetners, carbonation and caffeine but for some people that stuff is what they want for a boost.

It's still water and one is hydrating when drinking a soda. But I don't encourage having it all the time though since it is sweets and sugar. That would be ridiculous.

So then a 42 oz. drink would be one qt. and 5/8 of a pint. A lotta soda.

But it was 49 cents a couple years back now it costs more.


P.S. Don't forget to get fries with that as long as they come out of the fryer.

McDonald's is gross.

Yes it is..

But all I eat are, fries, nuggets and a 1/4 pounder w/cheese.

Big Macs smell like armpits. Or armpits smell like Big Macs... EWWWWWW!! !! !

I don't like McDonalds. I will only get their Milkshakes.

I think their desserts are okay. Sundaes (fudge), shakes (choc. and strawberry) and McFlurries (Reese's Pieces or Butterfinger)

But I usually need a soft drink to help put them down though.

I'll heartily 'second' that statement!

I think that we USAians are sufficiently familiar with liters (or 'litres', for the Commenwealth crowd) from a couple of decades of using 1 and 2L bottles, as well as using other 250 and 500 mL containers, for a company like McD's to simply use a 1.5L cup for their 'Supersize™' and their customers to think that nothing at all is out of the ordinary. As I have alluded to in a recent posting that I made in another thread, these days, containers measured in flozzes have no meaning at all to me, as I cannot picture the size of a 'floz' in my mind.

And with gasoline/petrol prices spiking upwards again, I'm wondering how long it will be before an enterprising station owner here in the USA decides to go to liter pricing, due to the much smaller unit of volume and its correspondingly smaller price per unit on the sign. Aside from some widely-scattered tiny islands, the USA is the only remaining major country in the World that does not price retail fuel in liter units.

BTW, what is marketed by McD's as a 'Quarter Pounder™' in the USA is called a 'Royale' in the rest of the World, this because pretty much everywhere outside of the USA, a 'Pound' is nothing more than the monetary unit of the UK.

Mike

I really do enjoy the metric and Celsius measurements myself because of the units being measured in tens rather than some various numbers.

I heard about 20-25 years ago the US wanted to convert to the metric system, but the fact was that we were so settled in the Imperial/English system that we would have to spend so much money to convert tools, factories measurements, etc. That would take a lot of time to produce.

Wasn't Canada using the Imp/Eng. System during most of the 20th Century? Because why would the measurements of a hockey rink be in feet rather than meters?



So a 1/4 pounder really is a "Royale" eh. Pulp Fiction Flashback.

Je voudrais une Royale avec du fromage, s'il vous plaît. Merci.

Oh and

Le Big Mac sent comme une aisselle. (Il rit fort)

By the way, do international McDs even have Super Sizes anyways?