I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th
Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.
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600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).
or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
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Out of curiosity, I just checked my pantry. I have two 30 ounce jars (1400+ grams), sitting in reserve.
This genuinely represents a failure to comprehend the scale of American food products.
Bro, stop. I can only laugh at Americans so much. And with your fascist leadership I now feel kinda bad for laughing at you.
Rookie numbers. We get the 64oz Costco size.
There's also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you're packing lunch for two kids.
Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
(This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it's such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )
Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
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In Europe it's code for "fatlards".
In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.
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In Brazil the "American cup" is the smallest size of cup and I'm always found that hilarious.
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Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart...
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Should call that classic American Size. Today the standard container size measured in American comes half filled at twice the price.
I had to look it up because I hardly ever actually buy mayonnaise, but I’ve walked down the mayonnaise aisle at the supermarket… What’s funny is that your 600g “50% more: American size” is actually a tweener size here.
The standard small jar here is 15 Floz (about 400g; we sell mayo by volume here apparently). The standard large jar is double that. And of course we have less common, but not uncommon, 48 Floz for “family size” and larger still in bulk.
We do have containers that are between or smaller, but the those are usually specialty containers (mainly squeeze bottles), specialty types (such as avocado oil based or flavored/blends), or just less common in general.
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