When I buy a can of something to drink, I assume that I am purchasing 12 ounces. But apparently it some manufacturers are skimping and ripping us off.
When I buy a can of something to drink, I assume that I am purchasing 12 ounces. But apparently it some manufacturers are skimping and ripping us off.
They are trying to save us from ourselves. What is this, New York?
330mL is common overseas, so I'm not surprised to see it on the Pellegrino. Some bottled beers are the same.
you'll notice a "half gallon" of ice cream often isn't anymore. They are happy to charge you the old price however.
you know...it's all about saving material... that .5 oz worth of aluminum really adds up manufacturing costs.
It's that damn metric system. 
In reply to pinchvalve:
Why are you buying the small cans of Arizona when the 24 oz cans exist?
Which is I think 23.5 oz.
They're saving costs. Or so they claim.
Charge the same for less, or more for the same.
Food/drink isn't immune from inflation.
Same reason my 50lb bag of dog food now weighs 35lbs, 1/2 gallon of ice cream is 3 pints, a gallon of orange juice is 96 oz. It lets manufacturers take a price increase with less consumer push-back than if they just raised the price. If you go from 12 oz to 11.5 oz, you get at least a 4% price increase if it sells at the same price - you may not even need to retool for the can.
My can of Dr. Pepper still says 12oz, or 355ml on it.
Soda's bad for ya, mmmkay.
In the case of a lot of beer and european containers... the standard size was 750ml so the smaller ones are half of that... which is roughly 11.5oz and labeled anywhere from 320 to 340ml.
Look at the label on a bottle of Stella Artois... 11.5
Yeah, Tilburgs Dutch Brown Ale is 11.2oz I think.
Canadian beer bottles, Labatt and Molson specifically, are 11.5 oz and have been at least since 1986 when I first had them. Their cans are 12 oz.
I'm not sure what a can of soda is, but I sure do know what a can of pop is.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I'm not sure what a can of soda is, but I sure do know what a can of pop is.
What about sody pop?
dculberson wrote:SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I'm not sure what a can of soda is, but I sure do know what a can of pop is.What about sody pop?
That's what my grandma calls it. 
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Look at the label on a bottle of Stella Artois... 11.5
You mean that overpriced Bud Light?
Well at least they didn't redefine a fluid ounce. Look at the situation with data storage, they say a kilobyte is 1000 bytes instead of 1024 which is what it actually is, and the size gets more wrong as the drives get bigger. A "2TB" drive is actually around 1.8TB. That's a 200GB ripoff!
Ha, you said "soda". What are you, american?
Guys, guys. Let's argue about it.
it could be worse...
The europeans may rip us off on the small cans, but you can make up for it by buying european tall boys. They're usually 16.9 ounces.
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