Recently I posted a note on here about a woman in France who produces jars of various kinds of foods and sells them in Annot, France. On her labels, the indication is given in grams and she had used "grs" as the symbol. Louis Jourdan kindly wrote a very diplomatic letter to her and she has responded nicely.
Our friend who had brought us the first jars, upon which I commented, brought us some more this week when she came home from France to get some more of her belongings and to pick up paperwork that had to be delivered in person. Mme Buttafuoco had "pen-and-inked" out the extra letters so that the indications are now given with only the letter g as the symbol for grams. Further, she told our friend that the next time she had labels printed they would certainly be printed correctly! I have just seen some pictures of the lady and her wares in the market in Annot (a charming town!). Even better, I have tasted her spaghetti sauce now. It was superb so I have sent a jar of my own back with our friend to give Mme Buttafuoco as a token of our appreciation. Of course, I indicated the contents correctly as "430 g". So, if I haven't furtherd the cause of metrication in the US this week, at least I've had a hand in improving the metric knowledge of at least one French woman. Our friend also brought me some tourist booklets. One has sections of topographic maps in support of its description of the local walking tours of that department. It is very enjoyable to see and read this material for "ordinary" (non-scientist) people in purely metric indications. I could even point out to our friend that never once in the material were the units spelled out; all quantities (even in the text) used only the unit symbols, for the sake of universal understanding. Gee, I guess I improved our American friend's metric knowledge, too. Jim -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, LCAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone: 843.225.6789
