Two thirds of a pint please, so that's two thirds of the cost of a pint yeah? So cheaper right? Right???
Well that's illegal, and I can literally point to the letter of the law:
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.
Draught beer and cider: Third, half, two-thirds of a pint and multiples of half a pint
The Code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
Seems like the part where it says it can be sold in half pints means that it would be ok to sell a half a pint.
I think maybe your comment didnt do a great job of expressing your point.
What I can glean from the headline and the above comment is that the quantity being sold is only a pint in name, not in quantity, so the problem isn't per se that they might be selling ⅔-pints, but that they might be selling what they call pints but are actually ⅔-pints.
slashing the size of pints boost sales in an unexpected way
Oh is it unexpected is it? Unexpected that selling people less quantity per unit would increase sales as people would probably still want the same quantity?
This is weirdly pro business from the mirror
The unexpected way is that while it decreased sales of beer it increased sales of wine.
So the people who didn't like the idea of short pints asked if they were messing with the serving size of wine, and when told no, they went with that. Everyone else just consumed the same amount as they would've, more or less.
Probably as they were charging the same price as a pint, perhaps an exaggerating, but I suspect two halves wouldn't be the same price as a pint was last week. Nobody likes to be ripped off.
I do hope this isn't a road to the term 'pint' just becoming a generic name rather than actually holding meaning. I remember when a 99 referred to the price!
The british pound once referred to the value of a "pound" of silver at the time. Though the meaning of even that measurement of weight has likely changed
A very good point, I'm just bitter about the cost of a 99!
They don't sound like much fun!
If they still want to call it a pint, they could go to the American definition (473ml, as opposed to 568ml). Beyond that, they could go to the New South Wales schooner (¾ of a pint, or 425ml). Or, you know, go metric and serve beer in decilitres as on the continent (400ml or 500ml is a reasonable size for a beer), though that may be politically impossible in the post-Brexit environment.
South Australia has 425ml pints (used to be called reputed pints) which is even smaller than a yank pint and nobody really knows why for sure anymore. Was is it greed, great depression, war scarcity or the temperance movement? In the 90s when you could finally get something other than west end on tap people rediscovered imperial pints but it creates a stupid mess of inconsistency.
I get my beer in centilitres.
Has long as you don't go full German and get them in liter, whatever floats your boat.
BBC article with more details: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl737zr79o
I prefer a schooner over a pint any day. Larger than a pot. Just right.
You mean a quarter litre, right, American?
You mean one fourth. They don’t use quarters, too French.
About 3 and one eighth cups or something.
We do use quarters just mostly for time increments
Whoa whoa, you can't just call someone a slur like Fr**ch here
