Cheers! A pint is still a pint
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TIMES WIRE REPORTS
British beer drinkers found a measure of good news amid a flood of economic downers: The fabled pint won’t have to be renamed.
After a long debate over whether the European Union would force pubs to serve beer by the half-liter, the European Parliament decided to let Britain retain the pint, the mile and other imperial measurements.
The bill scraps a 2009 deadline to end the use of imperial measurements alongside metric units.
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