British Packaging

At first you think, "they look just like they do in the states." But they really don't when you actually have them. That's how things work here. You think it's the same as you are familiar with, but when you get closer, or even worse, taste it - you will be surprised.
The soda bottles are two litres just like the States. (yes, "litres" - olde English law requires the 'r' before their 'e' - it dates back to the early 1200s when they spelled the King's son's title differently. Back then they spelled it "Perince" instead of "Prince". But Perince Sandy the Dull besmirched the title so badly in a cricket incident that they changed the spelling to 'Prince' for ever after. And as a reminder to the Royals to not to misbehave, they decreed that the 'r' would precede the 'e' where ever possible. Americans don't have royalty, so it's not required there.) But the bottles are taller and slimmer than the US versions. And less sturdy. For example, you can't hold it in one hand and pour it. The bottle will collapse in your grasp and you will be the subject of much humiliation and have an unexpected laundry bill. (or so I have heard)
The milk cartons are 2.272 litres, or 4 pints. You can get them bigger in six pint containers, but they are shaped about the same. I believe both are the shape and size they are in order to better fit in the small refrigerators, which fit in the small kitchens, which fit in the small very expensive houses, beside the too narrow, poorly paved, roads. (but I digress)
As noted in a previous post, potato chips are called 'crisps' - but the mystery doesn't stop there. The unsuspecting shopper goes to the grocery store and picks up a family size package, as you see in the picture. You open it, ready to pour a big pile of chips in a family bowl and six individual packages of chips pour out. "Pish and Tosh" you say in your blossoming Brit accent, "I must have bollixed that one up and picked up the wrong bleedin' package." You return to the scene ready to correct your mistake, but NOOOOOOOO ... you are doomed to failure. There are no family sized bags of chips. There are some larger bags, enough for two or three to share, but no all-american, glutton sized, 'take the family on a picnic, eat all the chips, and put the bag on your head' sized packages.
Charming