I concur. In fact, I couldn't have said it better myself.
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 08:12, wrote:
> Well, regardless (because of) of ya'll's bullshit (yes, I said it...someone
> had to) this list has gone downhill quickly.
>
> It's gone downhill much faster when the bashing that's been going on he
Sorry Jerry. I didn't realise you were referring to milk packers.
In my local area, a lot of milk is produced, but most is taken by tankers to
big packing plants. The farmers are paid by the litre, of course.
There is one small dairy who pack their own milk (they are based on an island)
They
I don't know where the line would be drawn as the question has never come up. I
have seen some spectacular misconversions, but the trader has immediately
corrected the error when it has been pointed out.
--- On Sat, 2/5/09, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
From: Jeremiah MacGregor
Subject: Re: [USM
Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I was not referring to any sale of the
1.136 L size, but the manufacture of it. Those who produce it may find the
urge to downsize the product to 1 L in order to save cost thus eliminating that
size from the market. The Scottish Co-op may only sell the 568 m
As much as Stephen loves to exchange personal data in personal off list emails,
it has never benefited him. I also believe that most of those "new" posters on
the MVI forum are Stephen clones and also that he is involved in the
administration of that site.
If Stephen lived in the US and did
>From a purchasing point of view, rounded sizes in metric are preferred. If
>you follow the discussions on changing the FPLA in the US to allow for metric
>only, it doesn't force or prescribe rounded metric sizes, but the hope of
>those pushing the amendment is that it will send the message to
Where would you draw the line? What would be OK and not OK?
Why doesn't the law make it simple? Just make the old units non-legal? This
way you can use them if you chose but you can make up your own definition and
an inspectors time is not bothered with them?
I believe in Australia it is t
No Jerry. I said that the Scottish Co-op use rounded metric sizes (apart from
568 ml/1 pt.)
Locally, I can buy milk at 2 Co-ops, 1 Tesco, 1 Spar, 1 independent grocer & at
various newpaper shops. Tesco, Spar & the independent grocer all supply 1.136
litre containers (as well as 1 litre contain
Well, regardless (because of) of ya'll's bullshit (yes, I said it...someone had to) this list has gone downhill quickly.It's gone downhill much faster when the bashing that's been going on here than it would have had with someone here and there saying that imperial units are used here and there.Je
I would like to add a few observations to John F-L's excellent post below.
Tesco have many different sizes of stores throughout the UK, John gives a good
description of a "Tesco Extra Superstore".
However, they also have smaller supermarkets, known as "Tesco Metro" & "Tesco
Express".
My lo
Stephen said
"Important note: as with other acts of pedantry, twisting the truth, and
general vendetta led spam - do not believe claims of joke posts by 'Jock' being
myself."
That's right. I'd better give everyone Stephen's totally believable version of
events.
Stephen claims to have been
Sorry Jerry. I have to disagree.
Why does a zero at the end of a 3 digit number make something truely metric and
any other digit make it "pseudo-metric"?
123 g is a metric amount. So is 100 g. They are equally metric.
With regard to 500 ml & 568 ml based packages, I don't know the
exact per
Perhaps Jerry.
But the inspector is still going to have to convert the supplementary imperial
indication to make sure it is not misleading.
IMO, "450 g 1 lb" would be OK. "400 g 1 lb" wouldn't be allowed.
--- On Fri, 1/5/09, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
From: Jeremiah MacGregor
Subject: [USM
The package was part of a handout on an airplane.
Still the good part is there are no ounces stated and the amount doesn't
correspond to an ounce size.
Jerry
From: John M. Steele
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2009 6:48:12 AM
Subject:
Well, as times get tougher and costs rise, they may feel the urge to downsize
the 1.136 L to a 1 L. Also if they produce both a 1.136 L and a 1 L they can
cut costs by dropping the 1.136 L. If I understand Ken correctly, this size
has already disappeared in his town. It is just a matter of t
John,
It is just so good to hear the truth about what Tesco is like compared to those
who want to paint a rosy picture of Tesco being "the imperial store". It is
sort of funny that some people will only allow themselves to purchase the <5 %
of the products that are dual marked and then claim t
James gave one possible answer, and I'm not disagreeing with it. However,
there is another possible answer.
The package is labelled not for individual resale. If it is sold only in a
pack of several such packages (or is a free handout, or a few other reasons),
the individual package does not
There is no reason why it shouldn't disappear, now that prescribed quantities
are gone. Depends I suppose on whether manufacturers still think they have an
economic advantage to produce packaging in both metric and imperial sizes.
- Original Message -
From: Jeremiah MacGregor
To:
The largest branches of the major supermarket chains in the UK (Tesco, Asda,
etc) can have as many as 50 000 separate products on their shelves. I would
venture to say that Jerry's estimate of >90% being labelled metric only is
conservative - probably like >95%. Tesco is huge (it was recently
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