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Ah, sorry. If you're talking about bottles, then yeah, 1~3 litres are normal here too. Single servings are either a can (330ml) or a small bottle (~500ml).
Unfortunately it's not a bottle. It's just a plastic cup with a lid and a straw. A really big plastic cup that tapers at the bottom so you can fit it in your vehicle's cupholder.
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This is an interesting dynamic. First they made things much bigger and now they are trying to deliver less at the same price. It would be interesting to see how decisions for pricing and size are made.
Eventually the elastic snaps on product downsizing and they relaunch a new "king size" or "sharing" product. For example, the Mars Bar in the UK grew from 49g to 65g then shrank back down to 51g, but they also launched an 84g king size bar. After complaints from the regulators, the king size bar was replaced by "Mars Duo" - two 42g bars in the same pack, ostensibly designed for sharing. Cheaper ingredients can also b…
Once Kraft took over Cadbury we got recipe changes - palm oil - to the standard chocolate; and lots of new bars with inclusions, as you mention, in order to reduce the amount of chocolate but keep the bulk.
Nearly all ice-cream now in UK supermarkets seems to boast "soft scoop" which is just the aeration AFAICT, meaning you get "half" the volume of actual ingredients (except air) in the same tub.
This sort of cheating with foods seems to have accelerated since the recession.
Didn’t they drink out of wine skins? Cheaper, more sturdy than glass.. and beer was drunk from wooden tankards, 4 pints in size unearthed, probably 2000 years ago in wales. https://museum.wales/articles/2010-04-01/Ancient-Drinking-Cu...
Like a wassail cup or so.
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This is an interesting dynamic. First they made things much bigger and now they are trying to deliver less at the same price. It would be interesting to see how decisions for pricing and size are made.
It's also interesting how difficult they can make comparing sizes/prices for even the simplest things, like for example toilet paper. Even comparing similar quality rolls with each other can sometimes be quite a math exercise, as different manufacturers sell different numbers of rolls, with different numbers of sheets, sometimes even in different sizes per sheet. So how to calculate the best value toilet paper? Based…
So the price tag on toilet papers will display the price per metre, and the price tag on coffee has the price by kg.
This makes it trivial to compare same-quality products, and also trivial to compare across different stores.
Note that they MUST do this by law, so all supermarkets (and also wholesalers) do this.