In USMA:23606 Han 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.
I was at the store today and I saw a bottle of liquid soap labeled as follows: 19.95 FL. OZ. (1.24 PT) 589 mL It seems that this product isn't a part of The Great Corporate American Conspiracy to Subvert Metrication By Means of Product Labeling. If this company had a reason (or no reason in particular) to make and label a product like this, obviously without doing it as part of some anti-metric conspiracy, maybe, just maybe, the same is true for M&M Mars. Of course, today I asked for a hamburger without onion and it had an onion ring on it. It must be part of a conspiracy to make us eat onions. You have to watch out for those conspiracies. Oh, wait, maybe they just weren't paying attention. In USMA:23209 Marcus wrote about unrounded package sizes: >What if the day after tomorrow American consumers all of >a sudden start seeing 946 mL, 341 mL, 85 g, 591 mL and all >the likes? Now compare with if they saw 1 L, 300 mL, 100 g, >600 mL instead. Which situation do you honestly think would >trigger the most complaining??? You know, I didn't notice anyone complaining about this strange non-metric size. Maybe they were busy organizing a letter-writing campaign to the manufacturer about this horrid 19.95 fluid ounces on the label. They will surely want to stop this company from producing this kind of anti-customary label! I think Jim Elwell hit the nail on the head in USMA:23188 when he said: >You are right that most people in the US don't care if values look >"rational." Of course, most people in the ENTIRE world don't care either. >Likewise, once we metricate, people in the US won't care whether toothpaste >is in 100 mL or 110 mL or 96.2 mL containers. >Heh, heh, heh .... actually, I suspect that everyone in the world who cares >is already on this forum! Of course, no one else will stay on the list if we spend all of our time dreaming up conspiracies to be afraid of. Carl
