In Finland, they advertise the largest container of mayonnaise as "American Size"

[dovahking@lemmy.world]

I just converted it. It's more than 200kg!
Does the whole family drink a glass of it everyday?
How in the world are you finishing that in a month?

[opisek@lemmy.world]

Are all your jars made from plastic?

[zezzoz@lemmy.world]

In Europe it's code for "fatlards".

[i_fart_glitter@lemmy.world]

A what??

[mouselemming@sh.itjust.works]

Oh sorry, family word maybe? A child cheater is a flexible spatula (rubber or silicone) rounded on one side, that scrapes all the yummy cake batter out of the bowl and into the baking pan, leaving not enough to lick.

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

I think they were exaggerating for comedic effect. I hope..

[i_fart_glitter@lemmy.world]

That makes sense!

[lag@lemmy.world]

You didn't even microwave it first.

[saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org]

Bro, stop. I can only laugh at Americans so much. And with your fascist leadership I now feel kinda bad for laughing at you.

[saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org]

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

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

America labels things in freedom and metric. What doesn't make sense to be is using volume and not weight.

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I lived in a couple of countries on Europe and the daily and bi-daily shopping is only really for people who live in big cities and commute by public transport and will pass by a small grocery shop on their way home from work.

As far as I can tell most people do a single weekly shopping generally by driving to a supermarket or even hypermarket either on the weekend or at the end of a working day, hence the popularity of such large surfaces.

Even in places like The Netherlands people have side bags on their bicycles and can just cycle to a supermarket once or twice a week if they don't feel like driving there and bring the shopping on the side bags.

From my own experience with my grandparents (farmers in Portugal), rural food planing timeframes are even longer than a week, as people relied (at least 50+ years ago) on preserved meats and longer duration things like dried pulses, certain fruits, and staples like potatoes for months or even a whole year and then add in season fruits and vegetables and even just go outside and pick up whatever was ripe then from a plot next to their home (so, for example, make soup with some salted pork bellies and chipeas from their food stores and some spinach and carrots picked up from from a farming plot near the house).

Anyways, even in Europe doing a weekly shopping is generally more convenient.

Mind you, it's great when you live inside a big enough city and you can just hop out of the tram a stop or two early on your way home and go by a mini-market to buy, say, some milk and fresh vegetables, but that's not how it generally works for most people, mainly because even in a big city, unless you live right by the store it's more time efficient to do one big grocery shopping a week were you can go to bigger places with more selection.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

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

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

The 10 gallon size is for food service. The gallon size is for large families. I knew a couple with ten kids who would kill a gallon of mayo quickly.

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

They are exaggerating. The foodservice packs top out at 10 gallons/37.85 liters as it becomes too heavy.

[kryptoniancodemonkey@lemmy.world]

So does my homemade mayo shower.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Costco size in the US:

For those in less free areas, that's about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.

We, uh, kinda like mayo here...

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Avocado mayo comes in a glass jar in my area.