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16 Jan 2020 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneYou may remember I mentioned a little while ago that my wife has observed a bunch of people in It fandom who think Bev moved from Maine to Portland Oregon overnight because they don't know there is a Portland Maine. This is just one of the amusing tidbits she's discovering here, because it's a fandom with an ensemble of characters her age, and there's been a glut of fanfiction written by the very young who are writing things about the 1980s and 1990s without realizing they might need to do some research about stuff that happened decades before they were born1. HOWEVER.
The other night my wife, who has actually been to America only a few times even though she uses English and consumes American media so much, said:
I never questioned the existence of 2- and 3-liter bottles of soft drinks! They've just always been there. But of course, yeah, the US is notoriously anti-metric, so her assumption was logical. She's familiar with milk coming in gallons! It's not even all drinks that come in 2-liters and 3-liters; it's really only soft drinks - and maybe some soft drink-adjacent things like Sunny D. I looked it up and apparently it was introduced by Pepsi in the 1970s and presumably the industry just followed their lead.
1. eg the lack of cell phones and cds, or the fact that everybody the characters' ages had an email address in their early 20s.
The other night my wife, who has actually been to America only a few times even though she uses English and consumes American media so much, said:
I never questioned the existence of 2- and 3-liter bottles of soft drinks! They've just always been there. But of course, yeah, the US is notoriously anti-metric, so her assumption was logical. She's familiar with milk coming in gallons! It's not even all drinks that come in 2-liters and 3-liters; it's really only soft drinks - and maybe some soft drink-adjacent things like Sunny D. I looked it up and apparently it was introduced by Pepsi in the 1970s and presumably the industry just followed their lead.
1. eg the lack of cell phones and cds, or the fact that everybody the characters' ages had an email address in their early 20s.
