Pat Naughtin in USMA 22173 quotes a previous medssage in which he wrote: > > >>> I agree with you about renaming coins in the USA. I >>>> well remember reading >>>> comics from the USA - as a child - and wondering >>>> what was the difference >>>> between a nickel and a dime; I did not know which >>>> was which. It was a bit >>>> like references to a stick of butter in recipes from >>>> the USA. It was only >>>> recently that I found out that a stick of butter is > >>> about 250 grams. >
The stick of butter is individually wrapped. Four sticks in a square arrangement make a pound. Hence the stick has 114 grams or 4 ounces. -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
