I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th
Pretty normal. See "California king size bed".
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This is smaller than a medium size jar in Canada (890 mL). Large is 1.4 L.
Is the American mayonnaise even as real as this real American mayonnaise??
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Hey we aren't the weirdos who dip our fries in it.
Oh wait that does sound pretty good actually
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Hell yeah.
I saw this several times when in Finland. I thought it was hilarious (I'm American).
There is a lot of truth to the big in America stereotype. Big country, big cities, big roads, big cars, big buildings, etc.
And a lot of those are related. Big country means that our cities can sprawl. Big (low-density) cities mean that our roads can be wide. Big roads mean that our cars can be big.
Big country also means that there are a lot of people, and sooner or later a good percentage of them want to live close together, so they build big (dense) cities, which means big buildings.
And the sprawl leads to the part about big containers of unhealthy food, too. If you live more than an hour away from the nearest grocery store, you're unlikely to get groceries more than every other week or so, which means you need to buy larger, more shelf-stable containers of food.
I believe (based on nothing but a whim) that us shopping culture is based on buying supplies (shopping for a week or more) while the European shopping culture evolved more from daily supplies from the market. Rural Europe would be the same i guess, but old cities was made for daily commerce
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As an American I approve this image
They dip their fries in mayo over there and put it on hot dogs, gotta get the big jars for that.
Americans don't dip their fries in mayo. Thats a Dutch/Belgian thing
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I mean, isn't that just shelf-stabilized 'Murican pulmonary fluid?
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.