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The USA is one of the last countries still to hold out to metric. Imperial measurements rule. There is nothing more confusing than to attempt to buy a drink that's 12 fl oz, when you not only don't know how much a fl oz is, you don't even know what it stands for. I got by though - I'd just look at the sizes on offer and choose the middle one. That way I knew I wouldn't be getting anything pathetically small or ridiculously big.
But I get the feeling that metric is sneaking in... it's taking over by stealth. It's on the stuff that nobody reads - the nutrition information. Well, almost, the energy/fat (it's energy if you use it, it's fat if you don't) is in calories instead of kilojoules.
There was one other thing measured in metric, something that I didn't expect. Coke bottles. Yep, the ol' two litre bottle of Coke is alive and well in the USA. But the cans are <some amount of fl oz> that brings them out at only 355ml! Ripped off! No wonder I still felt thirsty after drinking a can of Coke; I was 20ml short of quenching my thirst! Americans! Rise up! March on the streets! Demand your 20ml of Coke!
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