Timeline for answer to How should I ask for a "pint" in countries that use metric? by Mark Perryman
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 16:21 | history | edited | Mark Perryman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 12:29 | comment | added | Belle | @ErwinBolwidt I grew up in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, a region where the dialect resembles Flemish in many aspects, and as a server, I would give you a 25 cl glass if you'd order a 'pint', with the 'i' like in 'bit', and a 50 cl glass if you'd order a 'pint' with the 'i' like in 'bite'. | |
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| Jul 6, 2019 at 14:21 | comment | added | phoog | @AndrewLeach I did say "more or less equivalent." | |
| Jul 6, 2019 at 8:23 | comment | added | Erwin Bolwidt | @AndrewLeach Yes it is, 100g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Jul 6, 2019 at 7:50 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | @phoog "Ons" (ounce) is 100g? Not 25g? | |
| Jul 6, 2019 at 6:08 | comment | added | Erwin Bolwidt | "pint" in the Netherlands is more of a generic term for a single unit of beer regardless of size. In Flanders, according to Wikipedia, it commonly refers to a 25cl glass. | |
| Jul 6, 2019 at 4:03 | comment | added | phoog | @Gala I'm not sure about France, but in the NL various pre-metric names of units have been applied to various metric measures of more or less equivalent magnitude, such a "pond," meaning pound, for half kilo, or "ons," meaning ounce, for 100g. I would be surprised if there aren't a few places where "pint" at least semiofficially means 500ml. The most confusing example of this I've encountered in terms of magnitude is that apparently in Sweden they use "mile" for 10km, which is off by about a factor of six. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 18:16 | comment | added | Gala | In France, in most bars, "une bière" would be 25 cl. It's only 33 cl if it's comes out of a bottle. It's also increasingly common (especially in Paris) to order "une pinte" (which is not an actual pint but roughly 50 cl). | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 17:17 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | The Quora article you are linking to is not particularly accurate. "Pilsen" is the German name of the Czech city Plzeň, where this kind of beer comes from. The beer itself is however not called "Pilsen", but "Pils" or "Pilsner" and is usually sold as 0.3l, 0.4l or 0.5l and only very rarely as 1l. You would not refer to a 0.5l beer as "Halb", but "Halbes". 1l portions are only common in southern Germany and Austria almost always "Helles" or occasionally wheat beer. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 17:02 | comment | added | Mark Perryman | @mdewey I have lived in France for several years in the past and so hang my head in shame. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 17:00 | history | edited | Mark Perryman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2019 at 16:36 | comment | added | mdewey | Note that it is une biere to avoid confusion with un Byrrh which is something different. Admittedly if the OP is obviously not francophone the staff will probably guess correctly. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 12:22 | comment | added | phoog | Note that "Kölsch" and "Pilsen" are kinds of beer (associated with their cities of origin, Cologne/Köln and Pilsen/Plzeň, respectively) while "Halb" and "Maß" are related to measuring size (they mean "half" and "measure" respectively). A glass of 0.2L isn't called a "Kölsch"; it's just the usual size of a Kölsch. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 9:58 | history | answered | Mark Perryman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |