Peejee told Davan's father that Davan drinks "a two-liter bottle of soda" every day.
"A two-liter bottle of soda"???
Do they even use litres in the US? If so, why? Y'all don't use the metric system anywhere else outside of hardcore science, do you? Is liter even a legitimate spelling variation? It looks so funny! Do there really exist people who say both soda and litre? I figured if you said litre you'd also say pop.
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Two-liter bottles of pop are very common in the U.S. Most any store that sells pop will have them.
I remember during my elementary and junior high years (1970s) being taught that we would have to learn the metric system because it's used almost everywhere else in the world. It never caught on and I guess they were wasting our time.
Nowadays, I there's some talk of centimeters versus inches, but outside of science class or medical careers, I don't think metrics are taught or used much by American students or the general public.
The two-liter bottle of pop seems just an unusual exception. Not sure about people who use both soda and litre, as I live in a "pop" region. Around here, if you asked a store clerk where the soda is, you'd probably get pointed toward the Arm and Hammer (baking soda).
Here's a page about pop versus soda (and, down south, where all pop is a "coke," how weird is that?)
http://popvssoda.com:2998/
PS: Come to think of it, I would also note that most wine and "fifths" of whiskey/hard liquor are in 750ml bottles.
The two-liter bottle, spelled like that, is one of the few uses of metric in the US. The spelling is consistent with other US spellings. Meter, liter, etc.
That's very strange. I wonder why they don't measure it in ounces or pints or quarts or whatever? I've never managed to learn those volume measures, so I don't know which ones are appropriate, but my parents sometimes talk about a quart of milk, and 2L is a multiple of every standard milk container...
I still call the milk a quart and a half-gallon. It's a lifetime of milk to relearn, and I'm not there yet.
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