On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:32:36 +0100, "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Simple. Mars Products America is trying to prove that metric is ridiculous, >difficult, always yielding monstrous numerical values and therefore it >should never be adopted in the USA. On the other hand this company is trying >to prove that USC is rational, simple, always yielding sane numerical values >and the only sensible choice of units. > >Here all Mars products are packed in rational metric sizes with no TABD >'supplementary' indications at all As in the UK. In fact, it's Mars who bring out a Christmas special, called the 'Metre of Mars', while the good old British company, Cadbury, brings out a 'Yard of Dairy Milk' (or somesuch). Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
