# Is America metric? Why litre bottles of soda pop?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-america-metric-why-litre-bottles-of-soda-pop/124829 "2002-08-21T01:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dandmb50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@Dandmb50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandmb50)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-america-metric-why-litre-bottles-of-soda-pop/124829/1 "2002-08-21T01:26:13Z")

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I live in Toronto, Canada and we use metric measurement. And I understood that the US opted out and continue to use the imperial measurements.

Then can someone tell me why I see soda pop/mouthwash being sold in litre bottles in the USA?

Is it a way for the manufacturers of these products to gough the public for more money by confusing them with the size by using something that they are not familar with? 😕

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**Author:** ![Dandmb50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@Dandmb50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandmb50)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-america-metric-why-litre-bottles-of-soda-pop/124829/2 "2002-08-21T01:29:47Z")

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woops sorry about the multipe posting it didn’t go through on AOL so I used internet explorer. But it seems it went tru, I assume the moderator will delete I don’t know how to delete them…