• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Milk has been sold in gallons longer than pop has existed is my only guess for why milk hasn’t switched.

    The US government has been very on board with metric, for example the US was one of the original signatories of the metric convention. It’s just not simple to mandate that people stop using traditional units and instead use the official standard units.

    Pepsi and coke both have significant international business, which makes standard bottles appealing.
    Additionally, in the mid seventies when the US was last making a push towards making the private sector switch Pepsi as a marketing gimmick switched to a bottle that was bigger than a typical coke bottle and also metric.
    https://youtu.be/L6O4UeowF5I?si=fncOmRnbigWOrAsR

    They hoped to be ahead of the curve in the US, better value than coke, and use one bottle everywhere.