It is really irksome to see lots and lots of ifp preferential, metric secondary, or ifp only (and the latter very often hard rational), packed products coming from supposedly metric nations in the Far East. I see many of such products in shops that sell Far Eastern products. The Chinese export photo frames to Europe which are sized in inches ONLY. Everything that has to do with fireworks is measured in inches ONLY. Do these traders in these countries want a global reversion to outdated measuring units? I deeply suspect so, given the way they glorify Imperial and USC and treat metric as if it were something used by a few leftover backward countries. The EU directive should really be targeted against these countries, not just against the USA. Sending back some containers with such goods would help, I think.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-10-21 16:31 Subject: [USMA:22847] oriental food products > 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 > > >
