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Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ (www.theguardian.com)
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The poet Robert Burns imagined a man toasting his lover with a “pint o’ wine”, and Winston Churchill was perhaps the most famous proponent of the pint bottle for champagne. Now, Rishi Sunak’s government has spied a “Brexit opportunity” to legalise the sale of wine by the pint once more – if it can persuade anyone to make the bottles.

Still and sparkling wine will be sold in 200ml, 500ml and 568ml (pint) sizes in 2024, alongside existing measures, under new rules, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announced on Wednesday. It said the change was made possible by Brexit.

However, the pint-sized move appeared to be the extent of a push towards imperial measures, after a government consultation into allowing more businesses to buy and sell using them resulted in no new action.

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 95 points 10 months ago

  • helps nobody

  • anachronistic

  • nobody asked

Must be a special sort of day ending in 'y'

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

take the cheapest plonk

sell it in a pint bottle

call it "Blue Passports are Here Again"

picture of Winston Churchill getting noshed off by the Queen while Captain Tom watches

Yorkie-esque "not for girls" campaign but "not for Johnny Foreigner"

  • profit
[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I will barf

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