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I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th

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[–] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

In Europe it's code for "fatlards".

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's not big enough.

It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Are all your jars made from plastic?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

For most things where dropping it is likely and would definitely break it. It also lines up with the cost change for glass going up as the container gets bigger.

I figure part of it is people having a preference for the lighter jar for big quantities, and liking the rigidity of glass for the smaller ones.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 110 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Liter? Americans aren't even consistent with their weird systems of measurements. Why is it not marked as 568.3844 fl oz? Or 0.244 football fields or 38.38383 yards or smth

It's 64oz, or a half gallon, i.e. the smallest unit of milk anyone would buy.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

All food and drinks are sold in metric amounts which typically are also very close to an imperial measure.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (9 children)
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Almost enough for a regular Midwestern salad.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

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. )

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So does my homemade mayo shower.

Why did you DIY? I thought those came standard...

or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.

You know it's nice to be seen

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

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.

I haven't seen anything under 20oz in my supermarket, but I'm not buying the fancy "organic" stuff, just the squeeze things for picnics and the larger jars for home.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In Brazil the "American cup" is the smallest size of cup and I'm always found that hilarious.

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[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart...

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (28 children)

In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.

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