[USMA:22847] oriental food products

[Jim Elwell]

Couple of quick comments:

(1) I remain surprised that Asian food products (Japanese, Vietnamese, etc.) are almost universally NOT in hard-metric packages. When we get imports from Europe, they frequently are in hard metric packages, but I have yet to find anything such thing from the far east.

(2) Very unusual label on Hoy Fong Foods, some Vietnamese hot chili sauce: mass and volume in both colloquial and metric units. I bought the smaller bottle which omits the colloquial volume:

17 oz (1 lb 1 oz) (482 g) (435 mL)

http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/sriracha.htm

No doubt some of this foolishness is because this particular product is made by immigrants in the USA, but that does not explain the packaging of all the import items on the grocery store shelf.


Jim Elwell, CAMS
Electrical Engineer
Industrial manufacturing manager
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
www.qsicorp.com