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by RankingMember 4117 days ago
"Yeah I'll have a quart of Coke" certainly sounds weird.

It is strange now that I think about it that we have imperial measurements for milk but metric measurements for sugary drinks/beer.

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Beer and soda bottled or canned for individual servings still use imperial units (12oz/16oz/20oz). Oddly, water bottled for such has mostly moved over to metric. Keg beer also still uses imperial.
In Finland you can always order 0,568 liter beer. (Imperial pint) Or traditional large beer which is 0,5 liter or euro beer which is 0,4 liter. You decide.
I usually buy/order sugary drinks and beer by the ounce or pint.

Other than 1 and 2 liter bottles of pop, I can't really think of any time I would buy pop or beer using the metric system.

Cans of soda are most commonly 330ml.
In the US, they're mostly 12 ounces.