The picture must have come from a US product. I never saw that one here. Mike 2002-11-27
PS, John, does Ohio have 24 months in a year? (see your date below) ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:41 AM Subject: [USMA:23598] Re: M&M's | 2002-22-26 | | Interesting. The package shown on the web site is labelled as 1.69 oz 47.9 | g. Another case of the xx.9 g designation. But, this time to get it, they | had to come up with an even more ridiculous declaration in FFU. Go Figure! | | John | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Tuesday, 2002-11-26 04:31 | Subject: [USMA:23597] Re: M&M's | | | > All this talk recently (e.g.. see below) got me curious, so as I was going | > shopping anyway today I picked up these 2 M&M packs so you can see the | > labels - too bad you can't taste them! See www.m-ms.com.au for info. | > | > I thought I'd look around this giant store and see how many references to | > FFUs I could see, but had a hard time finding any. I eventually found a | few | > items in the international section where some imported jams and chocolates | > had ozzies and flozzies in brackets. | > | > I noticed that Australian producers don't put a space between the unit | name | > and quantity, but some UK producers do. | > | > Mike | > Perth, Australia | > | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:23 AM | > Subject: [USMA:23580] M&M's | > | > | > 2002-11-25 | > | > I was in the store again today and saw a display for M&M's Christmas | > candies. The package size was 14 oz 396.9 g. It seems that no matter | what | > size it is in FFU, the metric conversion is always something point nine | > (xxx.9) I find this strange. I wonder what Mars Products is trying to | > prove with this. | > | > John | > | > | > | > | > | |
