Older people are stupid - metric conversions - soda (liters)

[DrPizza]

I work in a restaurant on weekends... Customers (generally older - people in their 40's or 50's) will ask for a "liter of pepsi." When I hand them a liter of Pepsi, they respond, "no, the bigger liter." IIRC, the United States switched from quart and 2 quart bottles to liters and 2 liters (not exclusively) sometime in the early to mid 70's.

Why can't these people learn what size a liter is and what size a 2 liter is? They've been seeing them for around 30 years!

 

[Turkish]

WTF? Where in the hell do they let you order a liter of pepsi? I am European, so I am used to liters, but this is the first time I've heard of a restaurant letting you order a liter of coke/pepsi.

 

[Black88GTA]

[farva] Gimme a litera Cola! [/farva]

 

[agnitrate]

Screw liters. I buy in pitchers.

-silver

 

[FoBoT]

i am 38 and don't have that problem

i remember learning metric in grade school, Jimmy Carter was going to switch us to metric for everything

it just never happened with anything but soda bottles

 

[MattCo]

Originally posted by: Xiety
WTF? Where in the hell do they let you order a liter of pepsi? I am European, so I am used to liters, but this is the first time I've heard of a restaurant letting you order a liter of coke/pepsi.

I always order a 2 liter of Dr. Pepper when I am having Pizza Delivered. They dont have delivery across the pond?

-MC

 

[Linflas]

Some young people are so stupid, they have not lived long enough to know it is ignorant to to characterize an entire group of people based on a few encounters.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Xiety
WTF? Where in the hell do they let you order a liter of pepsi? I am European, so I am used to liters, but this is the first time I've heard of a restaurant letting you order a liter of coke/pepsi.

Seriously. In every actual sit-down restaurant I've been to, you jsut order a pepsi, and it comes in a glass of unspecified size. In places with take-out, you order by small, medium, or large, not by actual sizes.

The ONLY place I can think of where one could order a 2 liter bottle of soda is a pizza place, getting take-out.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Xiety
WTF? Where in the hell do they let you order a liter of pepsi? I am European, so I am used to liters, but this is the first time I've heard of a restaurant letting you order a liter of coke/pepsi.

Seriously. In every actual sit-down restaurant I've been to, you jsut order a pepsi, and it comes in a glass of unspecified size. In places with take-out, you order by small, medium, or large, not by actual sizes.

The ONLY place I can think of where one could order a 2 liter bottle of soda is a pizza place, getting take-out.

Well, his name IS DrPizza

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Xiety
WTF? Where in the hell do they let you order a liter of pepsi? I am European, so I am used to liters, but this is the first time I've heard of a restaurant letting you order a liter of coke/pepsi.

Seriously. In every actual sit-down restaurant I've been to, you jsut order a pepsi, and it comes in a glass of unspecified size. In places with take-out, you order by small, medium, or large, not by actual sizes.

The ONLY place I can think of where one could order a 2 liter bottle of soda is a pizza place, getting take-out.

Well, his name IS DrPizza

That's a good point.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: Xiety
WTF? Where in the hell do they let you order a liter of pepsi? I am European, so I am used to liters, but this is the first time I've heard of a restaurant letting you order a liter of coke/pepsi.

I always order a 2 liter of Dr. Pepper when I am having Pizza Delivered.  They dont have delivery across the pond?

-MC

Well I thought he was talking about a dine-in... not delivery.

 

[step-dawg]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA
[farva] Gimme a litera Cola! [/farva]

Dammit! you beat me to it! I was gonna post that right after i saw the first post! haha.