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I'm still fascinated that "calibrated" glasses are not more common. In Germany, you won't get any beer without any markings where the volume is indicated.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCllstrich#/media/Datei%3AWeizenbier.jpg
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No one will care. They will pay whatever fine, and pay whatever members of this class, and then they will keep doing the same shit.
If they keep doing the same shit I’ll sue them again, citing their previous lawsuit and any injunctive relief ordered in the previous trial when presenting my case.
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Legit question: does the FDA do a weights and measures things for restaurants?
Having owned, partly owned, or at least been very friendly with restaurant and bar owners...
...no, no they do not. Maybe they do if you end up on some radar or something, or get reported? But in general day to day and inspections, no.
Apologies, I should have been more specific. I meant does some sort of regulation or team or anything involving weights and measures exist at all for food service? Or is the only thing the theaters did "wrong" in this case false advertising?
I understand enforcement for an FDA regulation/whatever may be lacking. I've worked in a restaurant and other food service related places before but I was young and pretty low level so I wasn't super tuned into the business side let alone laws/regulations outside of basic food handling.
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In Canada a pint is a legal measurement of 20oz / 568ml
If you advertise beer on the menu as a pint, it must be at least 19.5oz excluding head(allowable margin of error)
What happens though is countless places advertise a pint, and then give you something like 16-18oz which is against the law.
It's gets harder tell what you're getting as well when they serve in non standard pint glasses, or glasses without a pint mark.
This is something that happens every year at the Oktoberfest in Munich. Legally, the "Maß" should be 1l, but the standards office regularly measure the contents way below that mark, even if one allows for a certain margin of error.
bring your own pint glass. and a lawyer to every bar you go to. bam ez money
Pay for your law degree this way then be the lawyer to save on costs! Travel the country for free indefinitely!
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What if 22oz of beer (volume) WEIGHED 24oz (mass)?
According to the website below, searching for "beer", 22 oz weighs 23.281 oz. So it's close!
Wouldn't this mean that beer would need to be 8% more dense than water for this to work out? Quickly searching online, it seems like beer is more like 1% more dense than water, depending on the type of beer, so not sure this is possible.
Wait, I thought ounces were weight but liquid ounces were volume, making this irrelevant?
1 fl oz (volume) of water weighs about 1 oz (weight). It varies depending on a bunch of stuff, ya know, cause imperial sucks, but I believe the standard rate is 1 fl oz weighs about 1.043 oz. So assuming beer has similar density as water, 22 fl oz would weigh somewhere around 23 oz.
(Some Google searches show that some definitions of fl oz has it as 1 fl oz = 30 ml exactly, but I'm starting to confuse myself and you know how infuriating imperial is.)
The US customary units are officially defined on top of metric, and 1 fl oz is 29.5735295625 mL, but an oz is 28.349523125 g. I imagine this decision was just to fuck with people (since 1ml of water weighs 1g at sea level, at 4°)
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