Both my shampoo and my wife's (different brands) come in 750 ml bottles. Smaller sizes are in a round number of U.S. fluid ounces. We buy the 750 ml size, of course!
John On Thursday 27 November 2003 22:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently saw a product in the aisle for women's toiletries that is > packaged in hard metric with the metric indication (500 mL) listed first. > Sorry I can't remember the product or manufacturer. But it seems quite > clear that more and more manufacturers are moving to hard metric packaging > in anticipation of permissive legislation that allows metric-only > labelling. > > What a shame (per James Frysinger's recent posting) that we can't see the > metric-only amendment to the FPLA before 2005! > > Ezra > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Nov 27, 2003 6:05 PM > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:27693] Another metric product > > I noticed today, while helping my wife prepare our Thanksgiving dinner, > that the two bags of macadamia nuts we purchased locally are both hard > metric: > Macadamia nuts, honey roasted > MacFarms of Hawaii 100 g > > Macadamia nuts, roasted & salted > MacFarms of Hawaii 100 g > > Both are products of the USA, made in Captain Cook, Hawaii. They list the > colloquial equivalent as 3.53 oz, so clearly are not just rounding from > 3.5 oz. > The first lists the serving size as 1 oz/28 g, with 6-1/2 servings per > package, apparently just a typo. The other lists it as 1/4 cup/32 g with 3 > servings per package. > Jim Elwell
