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

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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I had to look it up because I hardly ever actually buy mayonnaise, but I’ve walked down the mayonnaise aisle at the supermarket… What’s funny is that your 600g “50% more: American size” is actually a tweener size here.

The standard small jar here is 15 Floz (about 400g; we sell mayo by volume here apparently). The standard large jar is double that. And of course we have less common, but not uncommon, 48 Floz for “family size” and larger still in bulk.

We do have containers that are between or smaller, but the those are usually specialty containers (mainly squeeze bottles), specialty types (such as avocado oil based or flavored/blends), or just less common in general.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well Finland has the saying "Everything is big in America"

...good and the bad, triumphs and fuck-ups.

[–] huppakee 16 points 3 days ago

To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago

Should call that classic American Size. Today the standard container size measured in American comes half filled at twice the price.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago

That is pretty much exactly 1/3 of the size we usually buy in the US. I think it's a little over 21 oz, I always buy the 64 oz size. Our family goes through it pretty quickly.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's like a week's worth at best.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Finland is in the top 10 of the most mayo consuming countries, so they could just as well call it "save a trip" size.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 3 days ago
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