On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 10:17:59 -0500, you wrote:
>I snickered when I read the comment by one of Thoburn's supporters: "I
>have given a few bob to the fighting fund," said Rita Myers, 62. "When
>you get to my age you don't want to be bothering with kilograms. You
>just want pounds and ounces. Except sugar - you get that in kilos but
>it's different. With pounds and ounces you know where your money is
>going." Does the UK use different "kilos" for sugar than for other
>foodstuffs? ;-)
Yes, Jim: these are imperial kilos, brought in in the 1970s, for
flour, sugar, butter... but these damn furrners have imposed these
metric kilos on us now for loose stuff ;-)
And people have been buying their potatoes in 2.5/5/7.5 kg bags for 5
years, etc. etc.
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