As of: February 3, 2024, 9:10 a.m
By: Philipp Bräuner
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There are only 99 instead of around 100 milliliters in a bottle of the popular ginger shots.
There is a clever reason for this.
They are the refreshment for in between: ginger shots.
But why do the small bottles contain 99 instead of 100 milliliters of juice?
Reddit users know the answer.
Munich - As we all know, the devil is in the details.
And what a difference a milliliter can make can be seen in the bottle of the popular ginger shots, which are available to buy in many supermarkets.
A Reddit user noticed that the already tiny bottles only contained 99 milliliters instead of the full 100 milliliters.
But why is it like that?
The first thought here could be: The content is saved again while the price remains the same.
Because the channel on which the picture was posted is called “Shrinklation”.
A neologism from shrinking and inflation that describes exactly that, namely falling content at the same price.
99 milliliters in the bottle: capacity has a clever reason
But some of the users soon realize that the bottle of the little vitamin bomb is not shrinkage at all.
However, the strange filling quantity is apparently also about keeping the purchase price of the shots low.
“100 ml requires a deposit, 99 doesn’t,” says one user, solving the mystery of the supposedly missing milliliter in the micro-bottle.
And in fact, paragraph 9 of the German Packaging Ordinance stipulates that manufacturers who place packaging “with a filling volume of 0.1 liters to 3 liters on the market... must charge a deposit of at least 0.25 euros including sales tax”.
25 cents off the price and a whole milliliter of juice saved: With large margins, the devil - or the profit - is in the details.
But you don't actually have to go to the supermarket for a healthy thirst quencher every now and then.
Because the vitamin bomb can be easily made at home - and without any quantity restrictions.
(pkb)