Comment by opello
10 hours ago
You have to be able to fit those 10 100mL bottles into a single 1 quart resealable bag. At most you'd probably get about 9.46 of those 10 bottles in the bag but in practice it's fewer still.
1 US liquid quart is about 946.353 milliliters.
>>1 US liquid quart is about 946.353 milliliters.
Why not just say 1 litre and have the same limit as the rest of the world.
Because we have quart-sized ziplock bags here, liter bags not so much.
...the rule wasn't implemented because you have quart sized bags, it's the other way around. Also it's not like 1 litre bags would be difficult to make and procure.
The surface level answer is "for Ronald Reagan reasons":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act