flamingos-cant@feddit.ukM to okmatewanker@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoits called a half-pint, you absolute meltsfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down11
arrow-up1169arrow-down1imageits called a half-pint, you absolute meltsfiles.catbox.moeflamingos-cant@feddit.ukM to okmatewanker@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·2 months agoWell that’s illegal, and I can literally point to the letter of the law: Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’. Draught beer and cider: Third, half, two-thirds of a pint and multiples of half a pint
minus-squareajoebyanyothername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoThe Code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoThey were serving 2/3, so it’s fully legal. Also they’re actually urging the govt to reduce sizes, not the pub owners directly. Granted, it would be nice if we had had more than a screenshot to go off on
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoSurely a fine publication such as the Mirror wouldn’t publish a misleading headline?
minus-squaresazey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoOh come on now, next you’re going to tell me Daily Star is not a shining beacon of journalistic integrity!
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoSeems like the part where it says it can be sold in half pints means that it would be ok to sell a half a pint. I think maybe your comment didnt do a great job of expressing your point.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWe don’t have a link to the article so we don’t know exactly what they’re doing, but I feel it’s unlikely that they’ve just replaced pints with half pints. Or maybe they have, that would be even weirder!
Well that’s illegal, and I can literally point to the letter of the law:
The Code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules.
They were serving 2/3, so it’s fully legal. Also they’re actually urging the govt to reduce sizes, not the pub owners directly.
Granted, it would be nice if we had had more than a screenshot to go off on
Surely a fine publication such as the Mirror wouldn’t publish a misleading headline?
Oh come on now, next you’re going to tell me Daily Star is not a shining beacon of journalistic integrity!
A poor-man’s Sunday Sport
Seems like the part where it says it can be sold in half pints means that it would be ok to sell a half a pint.
I think maybe your comment didnt do a great job of expressing your point.
We don’t have a link to the article so we don’t know exactly what they’re doing, but I feel it’s unlikely that they’ve just replaced pints with half pints. Or maybe they have, that would be even weirder!
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