Shots

[jaffa276]

I was reading today about a hero who 'owed allegiance only to a $20 
bill and a fifth of bourbon' the fifth I assume referred to 1/5 of a 
gill that used to be used in the UK as a single measure of spirits 
until they introduced all this metric stuff and nicked a few 
millilitres off a shot.  A gill being 1/4 pint, a single was 1/20th 
pint thus 28.4ml (now 25ml to a single).  

This guy was obviously in the states though, and A US pint is less 
than a UK pint - I think 16fl.oz. so (assuming fl.oz. to be the same) 
is 16/20 UK pint i.e. 454ml thus a fifth of a gill is only 22.7 ml 
(20% less than the old UK version).  Do you all have really tiny 
glasses? Or do you just drink doubles? Or is my maths wrong?

In Ireland incidentally, a shot is 35ml... this is only a problem if 
someone makes you a cocktail with five of them in it (7 UK shots, or 
um, a quarter of a bottle.) I couldn't finish it :(

-Ben.