Sovy
I'm always baffled when I come across a product measured in fluid ounces. It is so rarely used that I have no frame of reference to go by. Just use mL like everybody else does here.
Mar 15 at 8:29pmWeb
Show threadthe Hearth Mar 15
@sovy even living in the us we have no good frame of reference for what a fluid ounce is
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Show threadthe Hearth Mar 15
@sovy apparently it's actually not even consistent but it's between 28 and 30 mL depending on what country you're in
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Show threadChartreuseMar 17
@Hearth @sovy The Imperial one actually makes some sense in that a gallon is 10lbs of water and there's 160 fl oz in it. So a fl oz is 1 oz of water.
Show threadSovyMar 15
@Hearth The funny thing is that I have heard this same thing from multiple people in the States when I've brought it up before.
Show threadthe Hearth Mar 15

@sovy it's just not a good unit

no one uses it in measurements here, you use teaspoons and tablespoons instead, so those would make more sense as a unit of sale
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Show threadthe Hearth Mar 15

@sovy they're smaller, apparently, too

a US fluid ounce is 2 US tablespoons or 6 US teaspoons

which is weird because it felt like iit would be the other way around or something, i dunno

see what i mean when i say, we have no frame of reference for it
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Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲Mar 15

@Hearth @sovy I worked in foodservice for several years with 1oz (30ml) and 2oz (60ml) portion cups, as well as a regular consumer of 12oz (355ml) aluminum beverage cans, so... I may be in the minority but I do have a pretty good frame of reference between the two.

Still I wish we'd gone through metrification like the government wanted to do in the 70's... There was even a renewed push in the early 90's too, under president Bush (41) but for some frustrating reason there was a lot of social resistance to change that still exists today.

They even went as far as converting one of our interstate highways to Metric as a test - I-19 between Tucson, AZ and the border crossing at Nogales, Mexico. Amusingly enough, although the Arizona department of transportation later added some signs in imperial units, the highway still has all of it's metric signage.

Show threadCyMar 15
for some frustrating reason there was a lot of social resistance to change that still exists today.
tl;dr everyone hates the French

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Show threadAria HollowsMar 15
@sovy anything but metric! Freedom units!!/j
Show threadSovyMar 15
@KMorningstar I joke about the other units of measurement but fluid ounces is the one I am genuinely flummoxed by.