We don't have pints.

[swamp]

A family member posted on FB. 

Went to Buffalo Wild Wings.  Ordered a pint of beer. Waitress told me they don't have pints. They only have two sizes of beer. 16 oz and 22 oz. 

he he opted for the 16 oz. 

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This no math skillz thing seems to be getting really popular!

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Pints of beer are a British thing.

[msventoux]

Maybe drinking the recommended amount of water per day would be more fun if they recommended pints instead of 8 ounce glasses. 

[swamp]

May 2, 2015 20:12:28 GMT -5 msventoux said:

Maybe drinking the recommended amount of water per day would be more fun if they recommended pints instead of 8 ounce glasses. 

I always drink water out of pint glasses. 

[mroped]

May 2, 2015 20:17:43 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Well it was until they supersized the pint!

Nah! They just called it "supersized" so they can charge more for it!
But it's still the same size.

[mcsangel2]

Well, it's probably more correct that she said they didn't have pints. I know U.S. pints are 16 oz, but British pints, where the term really originated, are bigger than that. Have run into the same thing when my stepFIL ordered a pint when we were out at a pub (in the U.S., owned by a British guy who was taking our order). He clarified, because my SFIL was wanting a British pint.

[marvholly]

Younger DD is 36 and since her college years I have been amazed/shocked/dismayed by the total lack of math skills in both her age group and younger. I speak as someone who can convert pretty closely our system (ft/lb) to and from metric in my head.  Live in the ft/lb world: work in a metric world.

[The Home 6]

I thought a pint was a pound the world around? (That's how my mom taught me to remember it.) Or maybe it's just a canning thing. 

[Malarky]

Did anyone else call 16 ounce beers "pounders?"  

It was a thing when I was in college, but I haven't heard it since.

I'm pretty sure I got it from some guys from New Jersey.

[8 Bit WWBG]

I blame the grocery shrink ray for distorting sizes.  Like the "pint" (14oz) of Haagen Dazs, or the "half gallon" (59oz) of orange juice.

[swamp]

May 2, 2015 23:58:42 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

Well, it's probably more correct that she said they didn't have pints. I know U.S. pints are 16 oz, but British pints, where the term really originated, are bigger than that. Have run into the same thing when my stepFIL ordered a pint when we were out at a pub (in the U.S., owned by a British guy who was taking our order). He clarified, because my SFIL was wanting a British pint.

She wasnt British. 

[clexie]

That reminds me of the time we had our refugee foster kids and two were Muslim.  I was ordering pizza and asked the lady on the phone if they had any meat toppings that were not pork.  She replied that they had ham, pepperoni, bacon and sausage.

[mroped]

May 3, 2015 8:51:14 GMT -5 clexie said:

That reminds me of the time we had our refugee foster kids and two were Muslim.  I was ordering pizza and asked the lady on the phone if they had any meat toppings that were not pork.  She replied that they had ham, pepperoni, bacon and sausage.

Oh my! Are trying to say that there is pork in the ham? Why do they call it ham then and not pork buttocks?

[Baby Fawkes]

May 3, 2015 5:26:36 GMT -5 The Home 6 said:

I thought a pint was a pound the world around? (That's how my mom taught me to remember it.) Or maybe it's just a canning thing. 

No, a British pint is 20 oz

[dannylion]

I once won a party game at a work function by knowing some really basic math and performing some rudimentary analysis.   At the time, I was the technical advisor for a group that skewed much younger. All the party planners were quite young. The game was guessing how many plastic spiders there were in a jar. 

The party planners had been crowing about how they had gotten all the party stuff really cheap from Oriental Trading. I knew that OT sells things by the gross and that a gross is 144 (12x12). I noticed that there were a few spiders used in the general décor.  So, by applying the rudimentary analysis (OT sells things by the gross, several spiders were used in the decor) and the really basic math (144 minus the 7 spiders I counted scattered about) I guessed 137.  I was right.  Everyone else's guess was wildly off.  They were astounded. 

My young colleagues were mostly recent hires (whip smart, college educated) being trained as intelligence analysts.  I used it as a teaching moment. 

[The Home 6]

May 3, 2015 11:36:01 GMT -5 Baby Fawkes said:

May 3, 2015 5:26:36 GMT -5 The Home 6 said:

I thought a pint was a pound the world around? (That's how my mom taught me to remember it.) Or maybe it's just a canning thing. 

No, a British pint is 20 oz

My whole life is a lie!!!

[wyouser]

May 3, 2015 19:23:51 GMT -5 Ratchets said:

There's the 'Merican pint on the left compared to British pint in the middle. And not to be outdone, a liter mug from Germany. Non non nom gulf glug glug.

Oh man! Spatenbrau!  I want some! When can I go to Munich!!! 

[cael]

It comes in pints?!

[CarolinaKat]

May 4, 2015 13:49:05 GMT -5 cael said:

It comes in pints?!

'I'm gonna get one'

[Sam_2.0]

May 2, 2015 20:06:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

A family member posted on FB. 

Went to Buffalo Wild Wings.  Ordered a pint of beer. Waitress told me they don't have pints. They only have two sizes of beer. 16 oz and 22 oz. 

he he opted for the 16 oz. 

Honestly I wouldn't have known. I don't measure things in pints very often. I guess I have pint canning jars but I call them my 16oz or 2 cup jars.

[mroped]

In most of Europe you get the beer in half liter or liter measures if it is on draft.
Two pints in a quart-US style is slightly less than a liter. One liter has 1000 ml and a quart is somewhere on 900 and some ml.
In certain parts, the half liter beer(equivalent of pint) is called a "spike" or a "billy" from "billy goat" in reference to the foam that gathers on the rim like a goat's beard.

Very few people use the terms anymore. They typicaly ask for a mug(liter) or a glass(half liter)

been in in a few places where they served the beer in oversized mason jars. The biggest one was like two liters-  a bit more than half a gallon.
There was one place called "Fuel Station" they were serving the beer in what it looked like gas cans from a liter to five liter- a quart to five and a half quarts. You were drinking out of tin mugs but all cans were marked "rocket fuel"!
when one was walking out of there was anything but a rocket. Nose diving rocket maybe?!
Another one called "The last dime". Sure enough when you were walking out you were broke!

[lynnerself]

I live in the heart of craft beer territory and the newest trend is tap houses. We all know what a "pint" is. Unless you're getting a "growler" filled. Or maybe if it is a really strong beer just having a "tulip".